WorksheetsSimple Test
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 3mins
Naphthol AS-D chloroacetate esterase
(specific) is usually positive in ......
cells, and alphanaphthyl acetate esterase (nonspecific)
is useful for identifying blast cells of ........
lineage.
A. Granulocytic; monocytic
B. Monocytic; granulocytic
C. Granulocytic; lymphocytic
D. Monocytic; lymphocytic
Side angle scatter in a laser-based cell
counting system is used to measure
A. Cell size
B. Cytoplasmic granularity
C. Cell number
D. Immunologic (antigenic) identification
Terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase
(TdT) is present in
A. Precursor B and precursor T lymphoid
cells
B. Mature B and T lymphocytes
C. Precursor B cells and mature
B lymphocytes
D. Precursor T cells and mature
T lymphocytes
Coarse PAS positivity may be found in the
leukemic cells of
A. Acute myeloblastic leukemia (FAB
type Ml)
B. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (FAB
type LI)
C. Acute myelomonocytic leukemia
(FAB type M4)
D. Acute monocytic leukemia (FAB
type M5)
The blast cells shown in Color Plate 18 •
are CD14 and CD33 positive, Sudan black
B positive, specific esterase positive, and
nonspecific esterase positive. Which type
of acute leukemia is most consistent with
the immunophenotyping and cytochemical
staining results?
A. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, T cell
type
B. Acute erythroleukemia
C. Acute myelomonocytic leukemia
D. Acute monocytic leukemia
A "shift to the left," when used to describe
a cell population , refers to
A. Increased cells in the blood due to a
redistribution of blood pools
B. An increase in immature blood cells
following release of bone marrow
pools
C. A higher percentage of lymphocytes
than neutrophils
. What is the major phagocytic cell involved
in the initial defense against bacterial
pathogens?
A. Neutrophil
B. Eosinophil
C. Basophil
D. Monocyte
Which of the following test results is not
characteristic of DIC?
A. Decreased fibrinogen concentration
B. Positive test for degradation products
C. Decreased platelet count
D. Increased antithrombin
A 65-year-old patient in the emergency
department has a normal D-dimer and an
elevated FDP result. These results are
consistent with the presence of degradation
products of
A. Non-cross-linked fibrin
B. Cross-linked fibrin
C. Fibrinogen
D. Plasmin
The coagulation factors having a sexlinked recessive inheritance pattern are
A. Factor V and factor VIII
B. Factor VIII and factor IX
C. Factor IX and factor X
D. von Willebrand factor and factor VIII
Which of the following will not cause the
thrombin time to be prolonged?
A. Fibrin degradation products
B. Heparin
C. Factor I deficiency
D. Factor II deficiency
When thrombin binds to thrombomodulin
on the endothelial cell surface, thrombin can
A. Activate the protein C pathway
B. Activate factor V and factor VIII
C. Convert fibrinogen to fibrin
D. Stimulate platelet aggregation
If a physician suspects a qualitative
platelet defect, the most useful test to
order is the
A patient on warfarin therapy will be
deficient in a functional amount of
A. Fibrinogen and prothrombin
B. Stable and labile factors
C. Protein C and protein S
D. Fletcher and Fitzgerald factors
. Which of the following is not synthesized
in the liver?
A. Factor VIII
B. Plasminogen
C. Protein C
D. von Willebrand factor
