Morphology | Mean % (SD) of cells in patients without OV N = 17 (31.5%) | Mean % (SD) of cells in those with OV N = 37 (68.5%) | P value | |
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RBC | Normochromic normocytic | 71.0 (34.3) | 51.7 (30.7) | 0.058 |
Hypochromic microcytic | 5.0 (14.6) | 2.9 (5.7) | 0.583 | |
Pencil cells | 0.4 (1.4) | 0.3 (0.9) | 0.823 | |
Target cells | 4.5 (17.6) | 5.0 (9.5) | 0.913 | |
Tear drop cells | 2.5 (2.9) | 1.0 (1.8) | 0.058 | |
Macrocytes | 15.2 (26.0) | 36.0 (33.8) | 0.018 | |
Acanthocytes | 0.9 (1.1) | 2.0 (2.6) | 0.044 | |
Partially haemoglobinized cells | 0.01 (0.05) | 0.15 (0.39) | 0.047 | |
Contracted cells | 0.1 (0.2) | 0.2 (0.5) | 0.483 | |
NRBCs | 0.01 (0.05) | 0.02 (0.06) | 0.766 | |
Polychromatic cells | 0.5 (1.4) | 0.5 (1.1) | 0.957 | |
Stomatocytes | 0.06 (0.2) | 0.12 (0.4) | 0.495 | |
Spherocytes | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.2 (0.8) | 0.187 | |
Fragments | 0.08 (0.25) | 0.07 (0.33) | 0.882 | |
Neutrophil | Normal morphology | 54.8 (12.0) | 54.1 (17.8) | 0.863 |
Neutrophils with Toxic granules | 0.06 (0.24) | 0.49 (1.82) | 0.169 | |
Neutrophils with cytoplasmic vacuoles | 0.3 (0.5) | 0.4 (0.5) | 0.551 | |
Band forms | 0.7 (1.7) | 1.4 (2.7) | 0.255 | |
Myelocytes | 0.06 (0.24) | 0.19 (0.51) | 0.195 | |
Blasts | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | ||
Hypersegmented Neutrophils | 3.2 (3.8) | 5.1 (8.2) | 0.239 | |
Reactive lymphocytes | 0.3 (0.6) | 0.6 (2.2) | 0.364 | |
Platelet size | Normal | 57.8 (31.8) | 82.6 (21.1) | 0.008 |
Large | 2.1 (4.1) | 4.3 (7.3) | 0.165 | |
Giant | 0.02 (0.07) | 0.12 (0.31) | 0.085 | |
Small | 40.1 (33.8) | 12.9 (21.0) | 0.006 |