Peripheral blood erythrocyte morphology in intermediate beta-thalassemia after splenectomy: anisopoikilocytosis, target cells, and Howell-Jolly bodies.
Marked anisopoikilocytosis, microcytosis and hypochromia, target erythrocytes, basophilic stippling, and individual erythrocytes with Howell-Jolly bodies in a patient with intermediate beta-thalassemia and splenectomy
Sample type Peripheral blood
Staining type Wright’s stain
Authors V. Torres Jiménez, M. Sopeña Corvinos, L. Ábalo Pérez
Workplace Central Laboratory of the Community of Madrid, Infanta Sofía Hospital
Basophilic stippling of erythrocytes in peripheral blood smear: morphological features in pyrimidine-5'-nucleotidase deficiency and hemolytic anemia.
Morphological features of erythrocytes in hemolytic anemia: detection of basophilic stippling in a peripheral blood smear.
Morphology of erythrocytes with basophilic stippling in a peripheral blood smear: causes and clinical significance in anemias.
