Characteristics of Pappenheimer bodies and Siderotic granules

Siderocytes

This slide is stained with Perls' Prussian blue. Three siderocytes containing blue granules are indicated by arrows. These inclusions may or may not have been visible on Wright's stain, as Pappenheimer bodies.

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