[Morphometric characteristics of erythrocytes in B12-deficiency anemia (based on computer morphometric data)].

The paper presents the results of computed morphometry of peripheral red blood cells in elderly patients with B12-deficiency anemia before treatment. The study was performed in the fine Romanovsky-stained peripheral blood smears, by using an ASPEK Russian hematological cell image analyzer. The objective quantitative characteristics of the parameters of the major megaloblastic hematopoiesis markers (macro- and megalocytes) in peripheral blood are given. The composition of peripheral blood was determined from the content of red blood cells with varying amounts of hemoglobin.