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| Year : 2003 | Volume
: 40
| Issue : 4 | Page : 144-147 |
Chronic myeloid leukemia presenting with absence of basophils and marked dyspoiesis
M Anand1, Rajive Kumar1, L Kumar2, S Barge2, S Singh3
1 Unit of Laboratory Oncology, Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Medical Oncology, Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
3 Department of Pathology Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Rajive Kumar
E-99, AIIMS Campus, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi - 110 029
India
PMID: 14716111
A 61-year old woman presented to us with fever, weakness and ecchymotic patches for one year. She had leucocytosis, anemia and thrombocytopenia. Peripheral blood smear showed 62% neutrophils, 32% myelocytes and metamyelocytes, 2% promyelocytes, 1% blasts, 2% monocytes, 1% lymphocytes but no basophils and marked dyspoiesis. Bone marrow picture was essentially the same. A diagnosis of atypical chronic myeloid leukemia was suggested. The correct diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia - accelerated phase was, however, made on cytogenetic analysis which showed Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) and isochromosome 17q [i(17q)]. This case describes a rare and diagnostically difficult presentation of CML arising out of a combination of prominent dyspoiesis and near absence of peripheral blood basophils.
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