Re: What to call it?

From: Jan Nelson (j.nelson@auckland.ac.nz)
Date: Tue Jan 20 1998 - 17:46:44 EST


>We are discussing a case of acute leukemia with the following results:
>Morphology - 93% undifferentiated blasts.
>CD 45 POS(DIM), CD7 POS, HLA-DR POS, CD34 POS, CD13POS (DIM),
>TdT POS.
>Negative for MPO,CD2, CD3 (surface and cytoplasmic), CD4,CD8, CD19,
>CD20, CD10, CD14,CD33.
>Debate-Undifferentiated or MO? (or something else!!?)
>Comments please!
>
>Mike Keeney
>London Health Science Centre
>Canada


Dear Mike,

Has the patient transformed from an MDS? We sometimes find that the blasts
in these cases appear to be undifferentiated or have minmal myeloid
markers.

Jan

Jan Nelson
Molecular Haematology
Department of Molecular Medicine
The University of Auckland
Phone: (+64)(9) 373-7599 ext 6381
Fax:   (+64)(9) 373-7492



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