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Today we will look at hereditary elliptocytosis. Which is a group of disorders classified based on morphology. They include common hereditary elliptocytosis, hereditary pyropoikilocytosis, spherocytic hereditary elliptocytosis, and Southeast Asian ovalocytosis.
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Carr, J. H., Rodak, B. F. (1999). Clinical Hematology Atlas. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company.
Hoffbrand, A. V., Steensma, D. P. (2020). Hoffbrand's Essential Haematology (8th ed.). Oxford: Wiley.
Keohane, E. M., Otto, C. N., Walenga, J. M. (2020). Rodak's Hematology: Clinical Principles and Applications (6th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier.
McKenzie, S. B., Williams, J. L. (2015). Clinical Laboratory Hematology (3rd ed.). New Jersey: Pearson.
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Current model of the red cell membrane from: Samuel E. Lux; Anatomy of the red cell membrane skeleton: unanswered questions. Blood 2016; 127 (2): 187-199. doi: doi.org/10.118...
Hereditary Elliptocytosis from: imagebank.hema...
Hereditary Elliptocytosis from: imagebank.hema...
Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis from: imagebank.hema...
Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis from: imagebank.hema...
Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis from: imagebank.hema...
Southeast Asian Ovalocytosis from: imagebank.hema...
Spherocytes-hereditary spherocytosis from: imagebank.hema...
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Last updated: March 21, 2022
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