A case of hereditary elliptocytosis.
Here are three images from peripheral blood smear from a patient with hereditary elliptocytosis. The patient presented for a general check up when his CBC showed only mild anemia with slightly increased reticulocytes. The diagnosis was made incidentally when the blood smear was examined.
Kahwash
Eiad
E
Department of Pathology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. ekahwash@yahoo.com
Bauer
Peter
P
Yearsley
Martha
M
D001772:Blood Cell Count; D004612:Elliptocytosis, Hereditary / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male