The peripheral blood smear is characteristic of:
Correct Answer: Hereditary spherocytosis
Description: Hereditary Spherocytosis—Peripheral blood smear.
Note the anisocytosis and several hyperchromic spherocytes. Howell-Jolly bodies (small nuclear remnants) are also present in the red cells of this asplenic patient.
Robin’s Textbook of pathology 10th ed Page 442
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