Abstract

In the blood of healthy people, red blood cells are round. A certain amount of red blood cells (no more than 3%) has a slightly oval shape. With anemia (especially with pernicious), relatively many oval erythrocytes are found. In general, ovalocytosis is understood as a rather rare anomaly, inherited not to every descendant and consisting in that. that a large number of red blood cells are oval or even rod-shaped. Such cases are observed in people of all races. Described in 1955 about 350-400 cases of this anomaly (Wilson and Long).

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