Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Abnormally shaped RBCs Spiculated

Abnormally shaped RBCs

Spiculated –
Acanthocytes (abetalipoproteinemia, post – splenectomy, fulminating liver disease); Burr cells (stomach cancer, GI bleeding, uremia); Bite cells (hemolysis due to drugs); RBC fragmentation (cytotoxic chemotherapy, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, deficiency anemias, acute leukemia, inherited structural abnormality of RBC membrane protein spectrin).

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