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CHAPTER 13  DISEASES AFFECTING ERYTHROCYTES  133

                                            HEMOGLOBIN SS DISEASE



























               A                                           B
                  FIGURE 13–14A  Hemoglobin SS (PB 3500).   FIGURE 13–14B  Hemoglobin SS (PB 31000).



                     Peripheral Blood:  Sickle cells (in crises), target cells, nucleated erythrocytes, schistocytes,
                       Howell-Jolly bodies, basophilic stippling, Pappenheimer bodies, polychromasia, increased
                       leukocyte count with neutrophilia, thrombocytosis
                     Associated with:  Homozygous hemoglobin S (see Figure 11-6)
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