TRISOMY-21 AS THE SOLE CLONAL ABERRATION IN A PATIENT WITH ACUTE MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA WITH ABNORMAL BONE-MARROW EOSINOPHILS AND EXTRAMEDULLARY INVOLVEMENT

Authors
DENGLER R WALTHER JU EMMERICH B
Citation
R. Dengler et al., TRISOMY-21 AS THE SOLE CLONAL ABERRATION IN A PATIENT WITH ACUTE MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA WITH ABNORMAL BONE-MARROW EOSINOPHILS AND EXTRAMEDULLARY INVOLVEMENT, Annals of hematology, 68(2), 1994, pp. 93-95
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Hematology
Journal title
Annals of hematology → ACNP
ISSN journal
09395555
Volume
68
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
93 - 95
Database
ISI
SICI code
0939-5555(1994)68:2<93:TATSCA>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
We describe a 30-year-old acute myelomonocytic leukemia patient with a bnormal bone marrow eosinophils (AML FAB subtype M4Eo) with extensive extramedullary involvement and, in the absence of an aberration involv ing chromosome 16, clonal trisomy 21 in the leukemic blast cells.