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Haematology: Blood film abnormalities Flashcards

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Macrocytes

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Liver disease, alcoholism (may be as part of megaloblastic anaemia)

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Target cells

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Iron deficiency
Haemaglobinopathy
Post splenectomy

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Pencil cell

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Iron deficiency

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Sickle cell

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Sickle cell anaemia

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Microcyte

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Iron deficiency

Haemaglobinopathy

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Spherocyte

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Hereditary spherocytosis
Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
Septicaemia

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Red cell fragments

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DIC

HUS

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Tear drop poikilocytes

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Myelofibrosis

Extramedullary haemopoeis

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Basket cell

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Oxidative damage - G6PD deficiency

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Howell Jolly body

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Hypersplenism, post splenectomy

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Basophillic stipling

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Hameolytic anaemia
Myelodysplasia
Haemaglobinopathy
Lead poisoning

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Siderotic granules

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Sideroblastic anaemia

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