🌸 Chrysanthemum of Red Blood Cells 🩸
🙏 Photo kindly provided by Vera Kirnas, Biologist at the Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory of F.S. Ankudinov Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Hospital
An unusual radial aggregation of red blood cells in a peripheral blood smear. Features of red blood cell morphology assessment and laboratory artifacts.
🌸 Chrysanthemum of Red Blood Cells 🩸
🙏 Photo kindly provided by Vera Kirnas, Biologist at the Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory of F.S. Ankudinov Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Hospital

How to distinguish true elliptocytes in a blood smear from preparation artifacts: cell orientation features and microscopic evaluation criteria.

Morphological criteria of proerythroblasts: nucleus structure, delicate reticular chromatin, nucleoli, and basophilic cytoplasm of erythroid cells.

A morphological finding: a binucleated normoblast in a peripheral blood smear. Features of erythroid precursor cells during microscopy.