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case_images: Morphologic review of the Wright-Giemsa stained peripheral blood smear revealed normochromic, normocytic red blood cells with anisopoikilocytosis. Many red blood cells (>25%) were elliptocytes. Elliptocytes are shaped like a pencil or thin cigar, with blunt ends and parallel sides.
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case_images: However, there was significant anisopoikilocytosis with a predominance of elliptocytes suggestive of hereditary elliptocytosis (Figure 1).