Auer rod

<h2 id="eponym">Eponym</h2>
<p>Although Auer rods are named for American physiologist <a href="/facts/John_Auer/U3VDWtIX">John Auer</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> they were first described in 1905 by Canadian physician <a href="/facts/Thomas_McCrae_(physician)/pesQovKK">Thomas McCrae</a>, then at <a href="/facts/Johns_Hopkins_Hospital/SDFhJozp">Johns Hopkins Hospital</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> as Auer himself acknowledged in his 1906 paper. Both McCrae and Auer mistakenly thought that the cells containing the rods were <a href="/facts/Lymphoblast/vvsHz4ID">lymphoblasts</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/1441.htm">Image</a> at NIH/<a href="/facts/MedlinePlus/bl3BjdjK">MedlinePlus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060323052145/http://www.wadsworth.org/chemheme/heme/glass/slide_036_myeloauer.htm">Slides</a> at wadsworth.org</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060102002435/http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/HEMEHTML/HEME020.html">Image</a> at <a href="/facts/University_of_Utah/0lhlnv7c">University of Utah</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Ackerman, G. Adolph (1950). "Microscopic and Histochemical Studies on the Auer Bodies in Leukemic Cells". Blood. 5 (9): 847–863. doi:10.1182/blood.V5.9.847.847. PMID 15434012. <a href="http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/5/9/847.full.pdf+html" target="_blank">http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/5/9/847.full.pdf+html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Auer, John (1906). "Some hitherto undescribed structures found in the large lymphocytes of a case of acute leukaemia". American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 131 (6): 1002–1015. doi:10.1097/00000441-190606000-00008. ISSN 0002-9629. S2CID 71853154. <a href="/wiki/American_Journal_of_the_Medical_Sciences" target="_blank">/wiki/American_Journal_of_the_Medical_Sciences</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>McCrae, Thomas (February 1905). "Acute lymphatic leukaemia with a report of five cases". British Medical Journal. 1 (2304): 404–408. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2304.404. PMC 2319598. PMID 20761949. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2319598" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2319598</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Bain, Barbara (August 2011). "Auer rods or McCrae rods?". American Journal of Hematology. 86 (8): 689. doi:10.1002/ajh.21978. PMID 21761434. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fajh.21978" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fajh.21978</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Auer rod open-in-new

Auer rod