An image from a bone marrow smear showing a blast (center) with loose chromatin pattern and scant basophilic cytoplasm seen in a patient with a normal bone marrow (100X oil immersion).
An image from a bone marrow demonstrating megaloblastic changes in myeloid and erythroid precursors (enlarged precursors, loose chromatin, nuclear-cytoplasmic asynchrony).
An image from a bone marrrow showing characteristics of megaloblastic anemia (large precursors, loose chromatin, nuclear-cytoplasmic asynchrony, multiple Howell-Jolly bodies in a single red cell precursor).