An image from a bone marrow smear showing a basophilic normoblast (center-bottom) beside a small lymphocyte (center-top) seen in a patient with a normal bone marrow (100X oil immersion).
An image from a bone marrow smear showing a basophilic normoblast (center-right) with a round nucleus and basophilic cytoplasm and an orthochromic normoblast (center-left) seen in a patient with a normal bone marrow (100X oil immersion).
An image from a bone marrow smear showing a basophilic normoblast (center) with a very round nucleus and basophilic cytoplasm beside a metamyelocyte (right) seen in a patient with a normal bone marrow (100X oil immersion).
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).
An image from a bone marrow smear demonstrating large precursors with loose chromatin pattern seen in a patient with megaloblastic anemia (50X oil immersion).