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.
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