An image from a peripheral blood smear showing myeloblasts (60X oil immersion). One myeloblast contains a faint auer rod (center, below another myeloblast).
An image from a peripheral blood smear demonstrating marked spherocytosis and polychromasia in hereditary spherocytosis (100X oil immersion). A stippled nucleated red blood cell (center) can also be seen.
An image from a peripheral blood smear demonstrating pappenheimer bodies, red blood cell agglutination, spherocytes, polychromasia, and Howell-Jolly bodies (100X oil immersion).
An image from a peripheral blood smear demonstrating pappenheimer bodies, red blood cell agglutination, spherocytes, polychromasia, and Howell-Jolly bodies (100X oil immersion). A giant platelet is also present (top).