Blood film

Blood films, Giemsa stained.

A blood film or peripheral blood smear is a thin layer of blood smeared on a microscope slide and then stained in such a way to allow the various blood cells to be examined microscopically. Blood films are usually examined to investigate disorders of the blood and, occasionally, to look for parasites within the blood such as malaria and filaria.^[1]

Blood Film Media

Variations of red blood cell shape on blood film, overall termed poikilocytosis
Blood smears showing various developmental stages of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, stained with Wright stain and Giemsa stain

Other websites

How to Prepare & Interpret Peripheral Blood Smears Archived 2013-04-15 at the Wayback Machine

References

↑ Helmut Löffler, Johann Rastetter, Torsten Haferlach, H. Begemann: Atlas of Clinical Hematology. Springer; 6th revised ed. 2005 edition (2004) p.4 ISBN 354021013X

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[1] Helmut Löffler, Johann Rastetter, Torsten Haferlach, H. Begemann: Atlas of Clinical Hematology. Springer; 6th revised ed. 2005 edition (2004) p.4 ISBN 354021013X

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