Lab Med Online.  2015 Oct;5(4):227-228. 10.3343/lmo.2015.5.4.227.

Pappenheimer Bodies in a Splenectomized Patient with Alcohol Abuse

• Byun JH
• Koh EH

• KMID: 2046387
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/lmo.2015.5.4.227

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Alcoholism*
Humans

Figure

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  Fig. 1 (A) Peripheral blood smear shows Pappenheimer bodies (long arrow) and Howell-Jolly bodies (short arrow) (Wright-Giemsa stain, ×1,000). (B) While Howell-Jolly bodies are not visible in iron stain, Pappenheimer bodies are distinctive (long arrow) (Iron stain, ×1,000).

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