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Test Code SPHER SMEAR Spherocyte Smear

Methodology

Wright Stain

Performing Laboratory

Decatur Morgan Hospital-Decatur Campus

Specimen Requirements

Draw blood in a lavender-top (EDTA) tube(s), and send 3.5 mL (minimum volume:  1.5 mL peripheral blood in 3 mL EDTA tube/250 µL in MICROTAINER[S]®) of EDTA whole blood at ambient or refrigerated temperature.

Reference Values

None seen

Day(s) Test Set Up

Monday through Sunday

Test Classification and CPT Coding

85008