Research Article
Retrospective and Prospective Investigations about “Quatrefoil” Erythrocytes in Canine Blood Smears
Table 5
Quantitation and position of qRBCs in blood films from a sample of 64 CBCs.
| No. of cases subtyped
for qRBCs seen
in the smear |
qRBCs totally
seen in
the smear | No. of cases where qRBCs were seen in |
Maximum no. of
qRBCs seen at
HPF (100x) | Feathered
edge area | Smear sides area
(body-feathered
edge adjacent) | Feathered edge
and smear sides
areas |
| | 41 | 1 | 26 | 15 | 0 | 1 | | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 (1 case) | | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 (4 cases) | | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 (2 cases) | | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 (1 case) | | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 (2 cases) | | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 (1 case) |
| | 64 | — | 29 | 31 | 4 | — |
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