The significance of Howell-Jolly bodies and giant metamyelocytes in marrow smears.
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Howell-Jolly bodies in erythroid precursors can be found in the marrow in a variety of diseases. More than 1% in the later erythroblasts is rarely found except in vitamin B(12) or folic acid deficiency states.Giant metamyelocytes are probably always the result of vitamin B(12) or folic acid deficiency. A distinction is drawn between the deficiency of, and therapeutic need for, vitamin B(12) and folic acid.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical pathology
دوره 14 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1961