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Atlas of Bone Marrow pathology
Mojmir Moulis, Josef Feit et al.
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Anemias of Chronic Disorders
Introduction

Anemias caused by chronic diseases (chronic infection, chronic non-infectius inflammation, malignancies, chronic kidney and hepatic diseases).

Clinical signs

Normocytic normochromic anemia.

Histology
  • Peripheral blood: normochromic normocytic or hypochromic microcytic anemia, no significant anisocytosis or polychromasia.
  • Bone marrow: normocellular or only slightly hypocellular with normal or slightly decreased normoblastic erythropoiesis. Stainable stromal iron is significantly increased, the number of sideroblasts is decreased or there are none at all.