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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 #Blood ... Smear #Dacrocytes #Teardrop
Pathologic Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphologies and Associated Diseases

Acanthocyte (spur cell),  
Basophilic stippling, 
Bite cell,
Pathologic Red Blood ... Spherocyte, Teardrop ... Atlas #Microscopy #Pathology ... #Dyspmorphic #BloodSmear ... Robbins & Cotran Pathologic
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 #Blood
Peripheral Blood shows a subset of atypical lymphocytes with hairy-like cytoplasmic projection.
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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
A normal peripheral blood smear indicates the appropriate appearance of red blood cells, with a zone
#Clinical #Path ... PeripheralBloodSmear #BloodSmear
The arrows point to blister cells. These cells are thought to be precursors of helmet cells.
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Elliptocyte - 
Note the shape of these appropriately named erythrocytes.
In addition to hereditary elliptocytosis, elliptocytes can
#Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood
Here is another peripheral blood smear demonstrating changes with iron deficiency anemia. Note the increased zone
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Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
#Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood