Skin Cancer Foundation. http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/about.cfm. The ABCDEs of melanoma skin cancer are: 1  Asymmetry. One half doesn't match the appearance of the other half.  Border irregularity. The edges are ragged, notched, or blurred.
Effects of Hemolysis on Clinical Specimens. Hemolysis due to the breakdown of red blood cells is important to the laboratory because it can have an effect on laboratory results. The effects can be the result of products liberated from the red cells themselves, or due to interferences with laboratory analyzers.
Haemolysis (British spelling) is the breakdown of red blood cells. The concentration of many substances is different inside and outside red cells. This answer is only about haemolysis in blood samples. Most biochemical tests on blood use serum, the liquid remaining after blood has clotted or plasma, the liquid in a sample to which anticoagulant had been added. To obtain serum or plasma a blood sample is centrifuged to separate out the cells or clot.