The Benefits of Flow Cytometry for Luchocytosis

The blood is tagged with all these different markers and then run through a machine like millions of cells are red individually at a time. And essentially what the pathologists will identify is normal populations of cells and then what they're really looking for is an abnormal population of cells. These might help us identify maybe a clonal disorder, a clonal typically B cell process or T cell process,. But you can also pick up blasts this way, myeloid or lymphoid blasts as well.