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stomatocyte
An erythrocyte with slit or mouth-shaped pallor on air-dried peripheral smears.
Etiology:
1) acute alcoholism
2) hereditady stomatocytosi
3) artifact
General
erythrocyte; red blood cell (RBC)
Properties
QUANTITY: 4.2E12-6.2E12 CELLS/UL
References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
- Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed)
Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 414
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 18,
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2018