Corticosteroid Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover Corticosteroid and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| A peripheral blood smear with many myeloid cells (photograph) was presented for morphology review. Toxic vacuoles in the neutrophil and monocyte most likely represent: | View Page |
| Eosinophilia Follow-Up As mentioned on the previous page, high percentages of eosinophils may be present in the peripheral blood smears of patients with a variety of conditions--asthma, urticaria, Loeffler's syndrome, larval parasitic infections and in chronic eosinophilic leukemia. One exception to the association of eosinophilia with parasitic infections is a fatal case of disseminated strongyloidiasis reported many years ago by Miale (Hematology--5th Edition, Mosby, pg. 776, 1977) in which the peripheral blood eosinophilia was masked by the administration of corticosteroids. | View Page |