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Post-splenectomy blood smear demonstrating Howell-Jolly bodies and target cells.

#Clinical #Pathology #BloodSmear #HowellJollyBodies #TargetCells #Splenectomy #Asplenic
Clinical #Pathology #BloodSmear ... HowellJollyBodies #TargetCells
Dacrocytes (tear drop cells) 
Other poikilocytes resemble a pear or teardrop. The narrow, tapered end
may be
resemble a pear or teardrop ... Clinical #Path #BloodSmear ... Smear #Dacrocytes #Teardrop
Codocytes (Target cells) - Two target cells are seen in the left photo and one in
Clinical #Path #BloodSmear ... Smear #Codocytes #TargetCells
Pathologic Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphologies and Associated Diseases

Acanthocyte (spur cell),  
Basophilic stippling, 
Bite cell,
Spherocyte, Teardrop ... #Dyspmorphic #BloodSmear
A – cabot ring, B – Howell-Jolly Body

What are Cabot’s rings?
- They are delicate threadlike inclusions
Pathology #Microscopy #BloodSmear ... #CabotRings
Schistocytes can assume a shape resembling natural or man-made objects such as arrowheads, fish, collar buttons,
left photo are a teardrop ... Clinical #Path #BloodSmear
Several artifacts can cause significant and potentially misleading alterations to measured RBC parameters: 
1. Old samples
Poikilocytosis #CabotRings ... #Dacrocytes, #Teardrops ... #TargetCells #Codocytes