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. 2021 Jun;43(3):e130-e134.
doi: 10.1111/ijlh.13417. Epub 2020 Dec 3.

The characteristic peripheral blood morphological features of hospitalized patients infected with COVID-19

Elise Schapkaitz  1 , Tanya De Jager  1 , Brian Levy  2
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The characteristic peripheral blood morphological features of hospitalized patients infected with COVID-19

Elise Schapkaitz et al. Int J Lab Hematol. 2021 Jun.
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FIGURE 1
Peripheral blood morphological findings of lymphocytes in patients with COVID‐19 Atypical lymphocytes (A) including plasmacytoid lymphocytes (B) and large granular lymphocytes (C) (May‐Grünwald Giemsa, 1000× magnification)
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Peripheral blood morphological findings of neutrophils in patients with COVID‐19. Neutrophils with hyposegmented nuclei (pseudopelgers) (A), apoptotic chromatin (B) and hypogranular cytoplasm (C); leuco‐erythroblastic reaction (D) (May‐Grünwald Giemsa, 1000× magnification)
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