The left panel is a peripheral smear showing that the associated anemia is usually macrocytic and that the platelet count is normal or elevated. The center panel is a marrow biopsy and the right panel, a marrow aspirate; both show the monolobated and hypolobated nuclei of megakaryocytes in this syndrome.
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