Blast Flag

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Blast Flag

An indicator that appears on the hard copy of an automated hematology analyzer—e.g., Coulter’s STKS—that signals the possible presence of blast cells when the device is performing an automated WBC differential. Blast flags usually indicate the presence of acute—myeloid or lymphoblastic—leukaemia, and require a manual differential by a technologists by microscopy

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