Leukemic ascites as an initial presentation of acute myelomonocytic leukemia with inversion of chromosome 16
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A pericentric inversion of chromosome 16 is associated with dysplastic marrow eosinophils in acute myelomonocytic leukemia.
Cytogenetic studies were performed in 18 consecutive children with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) between 1981 and 1983. Three children with acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AMMoL; M4, FAB classification) had the following unique bone marrow morphology and cytogenetic abnormality: eosinophilic precursors with dysplastic violaceous granules and a pericentric inversion of chromosome 16. Surfa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Saudi Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0256-4947,0975-4466
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2013.197