A clinical case of severe anemia in a 27-year-old patient: marked poikilocytosis with predominant dacryocytes, hypochromia, and polychromatophilia in the blood smear.
Patient, 27 years old. Erythrocytes 3.7×10^12/L, hemoglobin 66 g/L. When counting the differential leukocyte count, the following picture was observed: poikilocytosis with predominant dacryocytes, polychromatophilia. According to the analyzer, hypochromia and anisocytosis are also present. The diagnosis is unknown.
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