Figure 1. Peripheral smear from a 2 year old child who presented with an episode of mild jaundice. More than 75% of the cells have a cigar-shaped morphology typical of hereditary elliptocytosis.
Figure 2. A higher power view of the same image is shown. Oval-shaped RBCs predominate with many of the RBCs showing a more elongated cigar shape. The RBCs are normochromic.