Cabot rings

Cabot rings are thin, under the microscope, red-violet colored ( staining ), thread-like strands, which on the one eight have the form of a loop or. They are found only in rare cases in erythrocytes and held for microtubules, which in turn are leftovers from the spindle apparatus.

Related circumstances

Cabot rings were observed in a handful of cases in patients with megaloblastic anemia, hemolytic anemia, lead poisoning and other disorders of erythropoiesis.

History

Cabot rings were in 1903 by American physician Richard Clarke Cabot ( 1868-1939 ) first mentioned.