Howell-Jolly bodies on peripheral smear leading to the diagnosis of congenital hyposplenism in a patient with septic shock

We present a case of isolated congenital hyposplenism that was discovered after the peripheral smear revealed Howell-Jolly bodies. This case serves as the basis for a review of hyposplenism for the general practitioner.

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Autores principales: Mathew, Hannah, Dittus, Christopher, Malek, Anita, Negroiu, Andreea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26331020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.323
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spelling pubmed-45513332015-09-01 Howell-Jolly bodies on peripheral smear leading to the diagnosis of congenital hyposplenism in a patient with septic shock Mathew, Hannah Dittus, Christopher Malek, Anita Negroiu, Andreea Clin Case Rep Case Reports We present a case of isolated congenital hyposplenism that was discovered after the peripheral smear revealed Howell-Jolly bodies. This case serves as the basis for a review of hyposplenism for the general practitioner. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015-08 2015-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4551333/ /pubmed/26331020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.323 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Mathew, Hannah
Dittus, Christopher
Malek, Anita
Negroiu, Andreea
Howell-Jolly bodies on peripheral smear leading to the diagnosis of congenital hyposplenism in a patient with septic shock
title Howell-Jolly bodies on peripheral smear leading to the diagnosis of congenital hyposplenism in a patient with septic shock
title_full Howell-Jolly bodies on peripheral smear leading to the diagnosis of congenital hyposplenism in a patient with septic shock
title_fullStr Howell-Jolly bodies on peripheral smear leading to the diagnosis of congenital hyposplenism in a patient with septic shock
title_full_unstemmed Howell-Jolly bodies on peripheral smear leading to the diagnosis of congenital hyposplenism in a patient with septic shock
title_short Howell-Jolly bodies on peripheral smear leading to the diagnosis of congenital hyposplenism in a patient with septic shock
title_sort howell-jolly bodies on peripheral smear leading to the diagnosis of congenital hyposplenism in a patient with septic shock
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26331020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.323
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