Preferential localisation of red cell vacuoles to pathologically shaped human red blood cells.
The percentage of pitted erythrocytes and Howell-Jolly bodies in peripheral blood samples of 51 individuals following posttraumatic splenectomy and 20 patients splenectomized because of various haematological diseases differed significantly from each other (p less than 0.001) and from that of healthy controls (p less than 0.001). The percentage of pitted erythrocytes was significantly higher in pathologically shaped red blood cells (RBCs) (acanthocytes, schizocytes, elliptocytes) than in normal discoid shaped RBCs (p less than 0.001). As the number of pits per RBC showed great individual variations, a scoring system for the evaluation of pitted RBCs is proposed.
National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Budapest, Hungary.
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Demeter
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Magyar
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Varga
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Szathmári
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Lehoczky
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004908:Erythrocyte Inclusions / Q000473:pathology; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D004913:Erythrocytes, Abnormal / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005260:Female; D006402:Hematologic Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013156:Splenectomy; D014617:Vacuoles / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000097:blood / Q000601:surgery*