Question 297 · LEK · Diagnostics
Pancytopenia is defined based on:
- A. white blood cell count.
- B. whole blood cell count.
- C. percentage of CD34+ in bone marrow aspiration biopsy.
- D. absence of blasts in myelogram.
- E. red blood cell count in peripheral blood.
Hint
Pancytopenia means a deficit in all three blood cell lines — which basic test reports all of them at once?
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