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Here is another peripheral blood smear demonstrating changes with iron deficiency anemia. Note the increased zone
peripheral blood smear ... iron deficiency anemia ... #Clinical #Path ... PeripheralBloodSmear #BloodSmear #Anemia ... #IronDeficiency
Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
linear red "Auer rod ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear ... Microscopy #Auer #Rods ... #AuerRods #AML
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
promyelocytes, anemia ... occasional Auer rods ... peripheral blood smear ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear
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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (blood). Typical morphologic features are bilobed ("butterfly") nuclei with dispersed chromatin, subtle to
granules, and Auer rods ... I see all of these ... KyleBradleyMD #Auer #Rods ... #APML #Pathology ... Hematology #Clinical #Smear
Elliptocyte - 
Note the shape of these appropriately named erythrocytes.
In addition to hereditary elliptocytosis, elliptocytes can
megaloblastic anemia ... myelophthisic anemia ... sideroblastic anemia ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear
Dacrocytes (tear drop cells) 
Other poikilocytes resemble a pear or teardrop. The narrow, tapered end
may be
metaplasia, pernicious anemia ... some hemolytic anemias ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear
With iron deficiency anemia, the MCV of the red blood cells is decreased, the zone of
iron deficiency anemia ... #Clinical #Path ... #Anemia #IronDeficiency
Codocytes (Target cells) - Two target cells are seen in the left photo and one in
with hemolytic anemias ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear
Spherocytes - The arrow points to one of many spherocytes in this photo. The cells have
This smear was from ... and hemolytic anemias ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear
Schistocytes - The arrows point to schistocytes which are fragmented red blood cells. Also called schizocytes,
seen in hemolytic anemias ... microangiopathic hemolytic anemia ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear