LabQ Clinical Exercise 8: Hematology: Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm

Fnu Sameeta, MD   

Jie Xu, MD, PhD  

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center  

Houston, Texas 

Primary Audience:

Phlebotomists, Laboratory Technologists, Laboratory Directors

Secondary Audience:

Pathologists, Clinical Scientists (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants, Residents, and Students

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to: 

·        describe the clinical presentation of patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN); 

·        describe the morphologic characteristics of BPDCN;  

·        discuss the immunophenotype of BPDCN; and 

·        discuss the differential diagnosis of BPDCN.