[Surface architectonic of the peripheral red blood cells in cancer patients].

Scanning electron microscopy of the relief of the surface of peripheral red blood cells in patients with tumors of the head and neck (cancer of the tongue, larynx, and fundal buccal mucosa) of stages II-III and with stages III-IV lung cancer revealed similar changes, characterized by a manifest drop in the count of discocytes and increased share of transitional, prehemolytic, and degenerative forms of cells.