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Daughter had bloodwork her ovalocytes came back rare. what does that mean?
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Nothing: If there are no other worrisome features of the complete blood count, i'd ignore this. These are subjective assessments by a technician or the result of a computer image-analysis algorithm. If you look around, you can decide on most smears that at least a few cells are "more oval than circular", perhaps even from making the smear itself.
Answered 3/5/2016
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