Red blood cells (RBCs) are normally round. In ovalocytosis, the
cells are oval. Other conditions that produce abnormally shaped
RBCs include spherocytosis and eliptocytosis.
Review Date: 04/05/2009
Reviewed By: James R. Mason, MD, Oncologist, Director, Blood and Marrow
Transplantation Program and Stem Cell Processing Lab, Scripps
Clinic, Torrey Pines, California. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD,
MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
