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Figure 10.3 Iron deficiency maturation drawing. (Reprinted with permission from Anderson SC, Poulsen KBV.
Anderson's Atlas of Hematology, Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
Copyright 2003.)
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Figure 10.4 The blood in iron deficiency anemia. A: Normal blood smear. B: Blood smear in iron deficiency
anemia. The red cells are small (microcytic) and pale (hypochromic). (Reprinted with permission from
McConnell TH. The Nature Of Disease: Pathology for the Health Professions. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, 2007.)
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Figure 10.5 A blood smear showing normal erythrocytes (A) compared with a blood smear revealing
microcytic, hypochromic erythrocytes in a patient with iron deficiency anemia (B). (Reprinted with
permission from Willis MC. Medical Terminology: A Programmed Learning Approach to the Language of
Health Care. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.)
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Figure 10.6 Anemia of chronic diseases. (Reprinted with permission from Armitage JO. Atlas of Clinical
Hematology, Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.)
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