Look at
this !!! A ten-year-old child turned up
at A&E this afternoon with a fever. The blood count was rather
unremarkable, but my colleague made a blood film purely because the patient was
a child. Rather unscientific perhaps, but I must admit that I tend to err on
the side of caution.
But look
at those red cells…
I’ve seen
elliptocytosis before. The case which I remember most was an eighty-six year
old chap with a chest infection. Just like today’s case the elliptocytosis was
seen as a chance finding and is benign.
I couldn’t
really find any decent complete references on the Internet; Google Scholar requires
me to pay good money for access to the more academic articles, but (for all
that it is frowned upon), the Wikipedia
article does give a good summary.
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