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sickle cell (drepanocyte)
Laboratory:
- sickle-shaped, spindle-shaped or crescent-shaped erythrocyte seen in peripheral blood smears of patients with sickle cell disease
- sickle cells are elongated, crescentic-shaped erythrocytes
- the sickle-cell appearance occurs secondary to hemoglobin precipitation under conditions of low oxygen tension
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Howell-Jolly body
sickle cell (hemoglobin SS) disease
target cell
General
erythrocyte; red blood cell (RBC)
References
- PubMed Health
Sickle cell anemia
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001554/
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