acanthocytes peripheral blood

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Acanthocytes, an abnormal form of red blood cell that has a spiked cell membrane, due to thorny projections.A similar term is spur cells. They are seen on blood films in abetalipoproteinemia, liver disease, chorea acanthocytosis, McLeod syndrome, and several inherited neurological and other disorders such as neuroacanthocytosis, anorexia nervosa, infantile pyknocytosis, hypothyroidism, idiopathic neonatal hepatitis, alcoholism, congestive splenomegaly, Zieve syndrome, and chronic granulomatous disease. Peripheral blood Wright x1000.