Dacrocyte or Dacryocyte is a pear-shaped or tear-shaped red blood cell that is usually seen in a broad spectrum of infiltrative disorders that disrupt the bone marrow architecture and also in extramedullary hematopoiesis.

The abnormality is thought to be due to membrane damage to the red cell during maturation in a crowded bone marrow environment, damage at the time of exit from the bone marrow and subsequent circulation through the spleen.

These cells are usually seen in disorders such as myelofibrosis, metastatic tumor in the bone marrow, extramedullary hematopoiesis, dyserythropoiesis, megaloblastic anemias, thalassemia especially in thalassemia major, acute leukemias, and in multiple myelomas.

I don't have Dacrocyte cells in my peripheral blood smear more so the diseases stated above.

A friend of mine used to call me Dacrocyte during our MedTech years hence used in the advent of this blog.

Clerkship Madness

ranted out by dak at Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Apparently, I am too busy to blog. If you’ve been following my blog ever since i-dunno-when-probably-ages, you likely knoe that I am currently assigned in the OB department. I knoe, right? That is, 2 months of speculum exams, IEs, NSDs, CSs, labor watchings, and everything else.

It sounds fun, right? But as of this moment, I feel so lame and practically stupid in every aspect. As if I didn’t study for 3 years in med school. And I am still not enjoying the job. There are still a lot of things that I really don’t knoe especially the department’s SOPs.

Let’s wait… Give me more time. Hopefully soon, OB’s no sweat at all.

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2 remark(s):

tagabukid said...

good luck, dak

April 22, 2009 10:18 PM  
my-so-called-Quest said...

kaya mo yan dak! madami pang departments! hehehe.

April 24, 2009 12:51 PM  

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