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Dacryocytes (teardrop cells)

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HEMATOLOGY

Dacryocytes (teardrop cells)

Peter Maslak, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

hese abnormal erythrocytes have a teardrop, or pearlike, shape. They are associated with disorders with an abnormal spleen or bone marrow, such

as idiopathic myelobrosis, thalessemia, or myelophthisis.

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