PAMJ Clinical Medicine (Jan 2020)

Bizarre filamentous of erythrocytes presentation in children with sickle cell disease: about a case

  • Josué Simo Louokdom,
  • Innocent Kocko,
  • Thibaut Lethso Ocko Gokaba,
  • Félix Malanda,
  • Olivia Firmine Galiba Atipo,
  • Serge Léopold Talomg Tamekue,
  • Maryline Seuko Njopwouo,
  • Lydie Ngolet Ocini,
  • Alexis Elira Dokekias

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj-cm.2020.2.16.21064
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 16

Abstract

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It is a Congolese male child living with homozygous sickle cell disease who has a false thrombocytosis at 988 000/μL and a regenerative hypochromic normocytic anemia with automated hemogram. Peripheral blood smear examination revealed spherical, sperm-shaped or even rosary-shaped red blood cells.

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