AML Blast Cells. Wright stained peripheral blood smear, ×1000 AML Blast Cells. Wright stained peripheral blood smear, ×1000. Multiple blast cells seen in this smear from a patient with shortness of breath and a WBC of 105 K/uL, 80% blasts, HCT 20%, and PLT 75 K/uL. Flow cytometry confirms these are myeloid blasts conforming AML. (Photo contributor: Mary Ann Thompson Arildsen, MD, PhD.) Source: MICROSCOPIC FINDINGS, The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 4e Citation: Knoop KJ, Stack LB, Storrow AB, Thurman R. The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 4e; 2016 Available at: http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/DownloadImage.aspx?image=/data/books/1763/atl_ch25_f025b.png&sec=125439680&BookID=1763&ChapterSecID=125439555&imagename= Accessed: November 10, 2017 Copyright © 2017 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved