Retrospective and Prospective Investigations about “Quatrefoil” Erythrocytes in Canine Blood Smears

Table 4

Distribution of standard erythrocyte modification findings (according to [12]) in two groups of dogs without quatrefoil RBCs or with quatrefoil RBCs.

	Group without; qRBCs (%); No.: 3,081	Group with; qRBCs (%); No.: 138	𝑃
Anisocytosis	61.3	70.7	0.018
Polychromasia	25.1	35.1	0.005
Poikilocytosis	34.5	37.8	Ns
Echinocytes	20.1	22.7	Ns
Rouleaux	14.5	9.0	Ns
Howell-Jolly Bodies	11.6	19.4	0.003
Dacryocytes	6.4	9.0	Ns
Elliptocytes (ovalocytes)	6.1	7.8	Ns
Schistocytes	4.5	3.2	Ns
Acanthocytes	3.9	3.9	Ns
Keratocytes	2.1	2.3	Ns
Eccentrocytes (hemighosts)	1.2	2.3	Ns
Spherocytes	0.7	0.6	Ns
Target cells	0.7	1.3	Ns

Ns: not significant.