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Figure 1 ongenital dyserythropoietic anemia type I I ( D D I) Different degrees of red cell anisopoichilocytosis characterize peripheral blood films of patients with CDA I I In this subject it it was marked with macroovalocytes (center) basophilic stippling (lower right right corner) corner) teardrop cells (upper right right corner) corner) and schistocytes (below macroova- locyte and upper right corner) Figure 2 Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type I I In this patient different from that shown in Figure 1 anisopoichilocytosis is is is moderate with stomatocytes (8%) spherocytes (5%) dacryocytes (3%) and and rare ovalocytes and and macrocytes Note the pre- sence of of of two erythroblasts None of of of the defects observed in peripheral bool smears of of of CDA I is is pathognomonic of this condition 179