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Red blood cells, sickle cell: Image

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Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disease in which the red blood cells produce abnormal pigment (hemoglobin. The abnormal hemoglobin causes deformity of the red blood cells into crescent or sickle-shapes, as seen in this photomicrograph.
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  1. Hemolytic anemia
Update Date:
May 1, 2006
Michael C. Milone, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA.
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