Blood films: pathological cell forms
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target cells
Sickle-cell/thalassaemia
Iron-deficiency anaemia
Hyposplenism
Liver disease
'Tear-drop' poikilocytes
Myelofibrosis (chronic blood cancer causing scarring in bone marrow)
Spherocytes (round like a sphere)
Hereditary spherocytosis
Autoimmune hemolytic anaemia
Basophilic stippling
Lead poisoning
Thalassaemia
Sideroblastic anaemia
Myelodysplasia
Howell-Jolly bodies (little purple dot in cells)
Hyposplenism
Heinz bodies (dark purple spots in and out of cells)
G6PD deficiency
Alpha-thalassaemia
Schistocytes ('helmet cells')
Intravascular haemolysis
Mechanical heart valve
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
'Pencil' poikilocytes
Iron deficency anaemia
Burr cells (echinocytes) (spiky blobs - regular)
Uraemia
Pyruvate kinase deficiency
Acanthocytes (spiky blobs - irregular)
Abetalipoproteinemia (when you can’t absorb fats)
hyper segmented neutrophils
megaloblastic anaemia
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