Immunology&helper

Editor: H. Link, Kaiserslautern ONKODIN Image Bank is an online informational resource for experts, physicians and students, that has been in existence since July of 2004. Its focus is on supporting education and research in hematological neoplasia occurring in blood, bone marrow, lymph node and body fluid specimens such as cerebral spinal fluid, ascites and pleural effusions. ONKODIN Image Bank contains normal and pathological findings, hematological diseases, and other diseases containing hematological findings, as well as classifications, an expert panel and general information. The images are mostly presented in a case-based format that allows both the images and text to be searched. Images can be zoomed to get a detailed presentation of the image. This project is an ongoing development due to the multitude of hematological cases and images, as well as the constant influx of new information appearing in the field. Active decision support tools that quiz the website-users will be

This Atlas has the goal of supplying hematologists, laboratory technicians, medical school students, biologists as well as professionals working in the field of morphology of blood cells. The majority of the smears come from blood and bone marrow samples, however note that also are shown here cavitary fluid materials, scraped, etc. The panchromic stain used is always "Leishman", and are added in addition rare cytochemistry reactions. The pictures taken were scaled up of magnifications such:  x200 ; x400 ;  x630 ; and specially  x1,000  with photomicroscopes  Zeiss  and  Nikon . These pictures show normal cells from blood and bone marrow and continuing to a substantial variety of hematologic diseases, being some of these rather  Fotografias de Maduracion en Medula Osea, alteraciones eritrocitarias, Anemias, Leucemias, etc. Para acceder haga  Click Aqui.

This section provides a collection of a consensus-based cell library of meaningful hematopoietic images provided, identified and named by members of the European Morphology Faculty, including 28 experts from 17 different European countries. In this cell collection of 228 pictures there are 604 labelled hematopoietic cells and an excel file where each cell is identified by its code on the images, by the type of stain used, the lineage and the consensual name agreed upon by the ELN Diagnosis Morphology Faculty. From May 2007 on, each Faculty member first submitted a set of images. After several rounds of electronic circulation of digitalized pictures, the Faculty reached full agreement for 348 cells, while the agreement on the remaining 256 cells (highlighted with a red circle on the web site) was pending. The latter was reached after a 2-full-day meeting in October 2008. This cell library is the first ELN European tool to train and test European morphologists, aiming to provide a harmo