Blood film Flashcards by Anthony Rayner | Brainscape

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Target cells

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Sickle-cell/thalassaemia

Iron-deficiency anaemia

Hyposplenism

Liver disease

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‘Tear-drop’ poikilocytes

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Myelofibrosis

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Spherocytes

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Hereditary spherocytosis

Autoimmune hemolytic anaemia

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Basophilic stippling

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Lead poisoning

Thalassaemia

Sideroblastic anemia

Myelodysplasia

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Howell-Jolly bodies

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Hyposplenism

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Heinz bodies

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G6PD deficiency

Alpha-thalassaemia

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Schistocytes (‘helmet cells’)

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Intravascular haemolysis

Mechanical heart valve

Disseminated intravascular coagulation

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‘Pencil’ poikilocytes

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Iron def anaemia

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Burr cells (echinocytes)

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Uraemia

Pyruvate kinase deficiency

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Acanthocytes

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Abetalipoproteinemia

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