Color Atlas of Hematology - Practical Microscopic and Clinical ...

Hypochromic anemia without iron deficiency, sometimes withtarget cells, suggests thalassemiaabcFig. 47 Thalassemia. a Thalassemia minor: often no target cells, but an increasein the number of small erythrocytes (shown here in comparison with a lymphocyte),so that sometimes there is no anemia. b More advanced thalassemia minor:strong anisocytosis and poikilocytosis (1), basophilic stippling (2), and sporadictarget cells (3). c Thalassemia major: erythroblasts (1), target cell (2), polychromaticerythrocytes (3), and Howell–Jolly bodies (4) (in a case of functional asplenia).Lymphocyte (5) and granulocyte (6).139