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Schistocytes can assume a shape resembling natural or man-made objects such as arrowheads, fish, collar buttons,
left photo are a teardrop ... Smear #Helmet #HelmetCells
Several artifacts can cause significant and potentially misleading alterations to measured RBC parameters: 
1. Old samples
#Dacrocytes, #Teardrops ... Keratocyte #Blister #HelmetCells
Dacrocytes (tear drop cells) 
Other poikilocytes resemble a pear or teardrop. The narrow, tapered end
may be
resemble a pear or teardrop ... Smear #Dacrocytes #Teardrop
Extension teardrop fracture - Small triangular avulsion of anteroinferior vertebral body, at insertion point of anterior
Extension teardrop ... spine #Ortho #Teardrop
Unstable Cervical Spine Fractures 
The common mnemonic “Jefferson Bit Off A Hangman’s Thumb,” is used to
Pedicular Fracture Teardrop ... Fracture (Extension) Teardrop
Pathologic Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphologies and Associated Diseases

Acanthocyte (spur cell),  
Basophilic stippling, 
Bite cell,
Spherocyte, Teardrop
Morphologic Findings in Red Blood Cells
Basophilic stippling - Small blue dots in red cells, due to
fragmentation Dacrocytes (teardrop ... cells) - Teardrop
Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphology Atlas
 • Microcytic - Iron-deficiency anemia, Thalassemia, Sideroblastic anemia, Lead poisoning
Hemoglobinopathies • Teardrop
Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphology
Microcytic RBC: Pyridoxine deficiency, Thalassemia, Iron deficiency anemia, Chronic disease anemia (sometimes),
S-beta thalassemia Teardrop