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What are Band Cells on Your Complete Blood Count Band cells (also sometimes called "stabs" in some places) are immature neutrophils. They can appear in large numbers when patients have a chronic infection or inflammatory process. An example of this is when the body is trying to produce as many neutrophils as possible to continue fighting a chronic bacterial infection. The presence of band cells on a CBC produces a differential list that spans the range of Acute appendicitis to Myelodysplastic syndrome all the way down to steroid-resistant Weber–Christian disease. Segmented Neutrophils (Segs) are the mature neutrophils...all decked out and ready to go through phagocytosis. So if you have a White blood cell count, a segs percentage and a bands percentage...you can use a simple formula to calculate the "Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC)" which is useful for a variety of things such as monitoring the administration of colony stimulating factor or assessing a patient's risk of infection during administration of chemotherapy. Contributor's Note Richie Truxillo writes articles on Weddings, Wedding Favors, Rare Comic Books, Computer Hardware, World of Warcraft, Medical Topics and whatever other stuff comes to his mind at the time.

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Contributed by Richie Truxillo on May 17, 2008, at 10:29 AM UTC.

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