Peripheral blood smear from a patient with a transformed low-gradelymphoma. The circulating lymphoma cells have a blastic appearancewith intensely basophilic cytoplasm and prominent nucleoli.
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Peter Maslak and Susan McKenzie, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
