A clinical case of mild anemia: severe poikilocytosis, schistocytes, tear-drop cells, and macrothrombocytes in peripheral blood.
In the complete blood count of the examined patient, there is mild anemia with severe poikilocytosis and anisocytosis of erythrocytes (ovalocytes, echinocytes, schistocytes, tear-drop cells, sickle cells, helmet cells; acanthocytes are also present – photo 5). Some platelets are macrothrombocytes, with occasional giant ones (photos 2, 4).
🙏 The publication was kindly provided by Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory physician Nana Novikova, CHUZ “Clinical Hospital” RZD-Medicine, Smolensk.
Morphological features of peripheral blood smear: severe anisocytosis, poikilocytosis, schistocytes, and fragmented red blood cells in clinical practice.
Erythrocyte morphology in severe poikilocytosis: detection of ovalocytes, dacryocytes, schistocytes, and stomatocytes in macrocytic anemia and cytopenia.
Anisocytosis and marked poikilocytosis of erythrocytes, dacryocytes, schistocytes, and giant platelets in the peripheral blood smear of a patient with severe anemia.
