10 October 2017 (Tuesday) - Case Study


Here’s an interesting case in the Haematology Interest Group on Facebook:

“19 year female patient with severe pancytopenia and 45% abnormal promyelocytes in peripheral blood. Flow cytometry isn’t done yet, but i think it is classic M3”

Is it? Back in the day the diagnosis would be entirely on morphological grounds. Now cell markers are the method of choice.
I was going to say that it was a shame that the flow cytometry results weren’t presented, but they were added as a comment later:


“The flowcytometry result is: HLD-DR&CD34 negative and bright MPO consistent with APL -M3 fab classification”

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