RBC Morphology & Disease - 4
Inclusion Bodies:
Basophilic
stippling - fine
Howell-Jolly
bodies
Heinz
bodies:
Only seen using
supravital stain
Seen as “bite cells”
using Wright-Giemsa stain
Siderotic
granules:
Sideroblasts – if seen
in nucleated cells
Siderocytes – if seen
in non-nucleated cells
Cabot
rings
Pappenheimer bodies –
if seen on Wright-Geimsa stained slides
course
