
Howell-Jolly Bodies in Blood Smear: Causes and Morphology
Morphology of erythrocytes with Howell-Jolly bodies in peripheral blood: a clinical case of a 69-year-old female patient with macrocytosis, thrombocytosis, and normoblastosis.
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Morphology of erythrocytes with Howell-Jolly bodies in peripheral blood: a clinical case of a 69-year-old female patient with macrocytosis, thrombocytosis, and normoblastosis.

What are Howell-Jolly bodies in erythrocytes? Learn about the mechanism of nuclear remnant formation and their causes in megaloblastic anemia, hemolysis, and asplenia in blood smears.

A clinical case of severe anemia (Hb 35 g/L): marked hypochromia, anisopoikilocytosis, basophilic stippling, Howell-Jolly bodies, and neutrophil hypersegmentation.

Morphology of pathological inclusions in erythrocytes: Cabot rings and Howell-Jolly bodies in peripheral blood smear in erythropoiesis disorders.

Blood morphology features in myelofibrosis: giant platelets, pronounced poikilocytosis and anisocytosis of erythrocytes, and Howell-Jolly bodies in the smear.

Morphology of erythrocytes with Howell-Jolly bodies in a neonatal peripheral blood smear. Microscopy with immersion oil after Romanowsky-Giemsa staining.

What are Howell-Jolly bodies in a blood smear? Learn about the morphology of nuclear inclusions in red blood cells and their causes in asplenia, splenectomy, and hemolysis.