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Auer rod
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English
thumb|right|Bone marrow aspirate showing acute myeloid leukemia with Auer rods in several myeloblasts
Etymology
First described in 1905 by a Canadian physician, Thomas McCrae, then at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, one year before John Auer (1875-1948), the US physiologist after whom they are named.
Pronunciation
see en Auer, en rod
Noun
en medicine clumps of azurophilic granular material that typically form elongated needles seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid leukemic blast cells.
Synonyms
en Auer body
en eponyms