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).
This image from a peripheral blood smear demonstrates increased spherocytosis, polychromasia, and a Howell-Jolly body seen in either hereditary spherocytosis or autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA).