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Differential Diagnosis For Burr cells on smear (Lab)
List of current finding(s):
Burr cells on smear (Lab)
- Surgical, Procedure Complication
- Splenectomy
- Splenectomy, immediate postoperative
- Neoplastic Disorders
- Adenocarcinoma, gastric
- Allergic, Collagen, Auto-Immune Disorders
- Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
- Metabolic, Storage Disorders
- Hyperalphalipoproteinemia, familial
- Abetalipoproteinemia (Bassen Kornzweig)
- Embden-Meyerhof RBC membrane defects
- Deficiency Disorders
- Iron deficiency anemia
- Hereditary, Familial, Genetic Disorders
- Pyruvate kinase deficiency RBC's
- Phosphoglycerate kinase defic/RBC
- Neuroacanthocytosis, familial
- Functional, Physiologic Variant Disorders
- Newborn status
- Reference to Organ System
- Anemia of uremia
- Myelophthisic anemia
- Renal Failure Chronic
- Hemolytic-uremic syndrome
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Pathophysiologic
- Microangiopathic anemia/hemolytic
- Poisoning (Specific Agent)
- Snakebite (rattlesnake/pit viper type)
- Alcoholism, chronic
- Synonyms
- Lab, Red blood cell burr cells present, Smear, Smear test
- Definition
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Burr cells are crenated red cells known as echinocytes seen on Wright Stain blood smear. RBCs with lost disc shape and spherical now covered with short, sharply pointed projections ... may be artefactual in older red cells..[adapted General Practice Notebook ONLINE 2009]
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