Pappenheimer bodies - also known as siderotic granules. stippled particles are due to iron granules (demonstrable by the Prussian blue stain),, Howell–Jolly bodies - purple spheres, usually about 0.5 μm in diameter, presenting singly, or rarely multiply, in the cytoplasm, Basophilic stippling - numerous very small coarse or fine blue granules within the cytoplasm, Heinz bodies - commonly seen in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, found in patients who have had splenectomies or are hyposplenic (e.g., sickle cell anemia) and rarely in megaloblastic anemias. - Howell–Jolly bodies, lead poisoning, sideroblastic anemia, and thalassemia - The three disorders particularly associated with Basophilic stippling,

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