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Table 3 The peripheral blood morphology between presence and absence of OV

From: Percentage of small platelets on peripheral blood smear and Child-Turcott-Pugh class can predict the presence of oesophageal varices in newly diagnosed patients with cirrhosis: development of a prediction model for resource limited settings

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

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

  1. Bold - Statistically significant variables