Macrocytosis in Liver Disease

Macrocytosis in Liver Disease

This image shows nonnutritional macrocytic anemia that is not drug-induced. Round morphology of the red blood cells, as opposed to oval macrocytosis, suggests liver disease with excess red cell membrane area; target cells are also evident.

By permission of the publisher. From Tefferi A, Li C. In Atlas of Clinical Hematology. Edited by JO Armitage. Philadelphia, Current Medicine, 2004.