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From: Acute HIV infection presenting as hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: case report and review of the literature

Fig. 1

A compilation of two photomicrographs from the bone marrow aspirate with a Giemsa stain. In both images a and b, high-power views of hemophagocytic histiocytes are shown, with the histiocyte nucleus highlighted by the black-colored arrow and the partially-digested nuclei of phagocytosed cells highlighted by the white-colored arrow. The cytoplasmic border of the histiocyte of interest in image A is highlighted by the dotted line. Giemsa staining is performed using air dried aspirate smears

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