Iron Deficiency Anemia
Iron Deficiency Anemia
In iron deficiency anemia, the peripheral smear usually shows anisocytosis and poikilocytosis. In severe cases, cigar-shaped red blood cells and elliptocytes are characteristically present. Conversely, polychromasia (the Wright-Giemsa stain equivalent of reticulocytosis) and basophilic stippling are conspicuously absent.
By permission of the publisher. From Tefferi A, Li C. In Atlas of Clinical Hematology. Edited by JO Armitage. Philadelphia, Current Medicine, 2004.
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