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Light Microscopy of a Peripheral Blood Smear in a patient with megaloblastic anemic secondary to severe vitamin B12 deficiency. Light Microscopy demonstrates the presence of numerous red blood cell morphologies including ovalocytes (arrow), target cells (arrowhead), teardrop cells (curved arrow), and schistocytes (asterisk); Panel A. Numerous Howell-Jolly bodies (arrows), basophilic stippling (arrowhead), and a nucleated red blood cell (asterisk) are also seen; Panel B. A solitary hyper-segmented neutrophil is appreciated on a background of macro-ovalocytes; Panel C
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Basophilic stippling and hyper-segmented neutrophils were also seen (Figure 1).
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