faggot cell

{{Short description|Abnormal blood cells in hypergranular APML}}

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Faggot cells are cells normally found in the hypergranular form of acute promyelocytic leukemia (FAB - M3). These promyelocytes (not blast cells) have numerous Auer rods in the cytoplasm which gives the appearance of a bundle of sticks, from which the cells are given their name.Lichtman, Marshall A., Shafer, Jean A., Felgar, Raymond E., and Wang, Nancy. Lichtman's Atlas of Hematology.{{cite book|author=Kenneth D. McClatchey|title=Clinical laboratory medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3PJVLH1NmQAC&pg=PA909|access-date=6 December 2011|year=2002|publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|isbn=978-0-683-30751-1|pages=909–}}