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Acute and Chronic HBV

Acute and Chronic Hepatitis B Comparision

Howell-Jolly bodies

Howell-Jolly bodies in a thin blood smear stained with Giemsa

Howell-Jolly bodies are inclusion that may be seen in splenectomized patients or patients with an otherwise non-functioning or atrophic spleen, and in patients with severe anemia or ...
Bite Cell (Degmacyte)

Bite cells known as Degmacytes

Bite cells (“Degmacytes”) RBCs with peripheral single or multiple arcuate defects. Usually associated with spherocytes and blister cells. seen in : Oxidant stress. Normal ...
coarse granules

coarse blue granules of Basophilic stippling

Basophilic stippling is the occurrence of fine, medium, or coarse blue granules uniformly distributed throughout some red blood cells. Fine stippling may be associated with polychromatophilia, ...
ABO Blood Types

ABO Blood Types with Antigens and Antibodies

Reticulocytes

Reticulocytes using vital stain

In the presence of some anemias, the body increases production of red blood cells (RBCs), and sends these cells into the bloodstream before they are mature. These slightly immature ...
Giant Platelet

Giant Platelet on a smear

The arrow point to a Giant platelet, notice its size more than red cell size
Red Blood Cell Morphologies

basophilic stippling – howel jolley bodies – Cabot Ring – Heinz bodies

A: Basophilic Stippling B: Howel-Jolley Bodies C: Cabot’s Ring E: Heinz Bodies
Charcot-Leyden crystals

Charcot-Leyden crystals

Charcot-Leyden crystals. These crystals are the breakdown products of eosinophils and maybe found in the feces and sputum of people with tissue-invading parasitic infections or various ...
Neutrophil and Monocyte

Normal Neutrophil and Monocyte in a smear

Cabot Rings

Cabot rings seen in megaloblastic anemia

Cabot rings are ring shape, or figure-8, these inclusions represents nuclear cabot rings can be seen in megaloblastic anemia
Stomatocytes

The rod-shaped appearance of the central pallor – stomatocyte

The rod-shaped appearance of the central pallor is characteristic of a stomatocyte.This image was obtained from the peripheral blood smear of an 86 year-old male who presented with ...
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