Interesting case

From: Newsom, Brian S. (BSNEWSOM@txccc.org)
Date: Thu Sep 16 1999 - 17:42:29 EST


I have an interesting/puzzling case for the group. A 16 month old Female,
(non-Downs) was diagnosed with M7 seven weeks ago. She was not doing well on
therapy and we got the case. Her morphology shows large blebbing blast-like
cells but her cytogenetics look very pre B-ALLish, WBC is 3.2X10^6/mL. Her
flow is as follows:

Positive for CD38, CD42a, CD56 and CD117

Partially/Dimly positve for CD33 and CD61

Negative for CD3, CD4, CD5, CD7, CD8, CD11b, CD13, CD14, CD15, CD16, CD19,
CD20, CD34, CD95, Kappa, Lambda, TdT, MPO and HLA-DR

There also is a population of about 0.5% of the BM that is CD10+CD22+ (pre
B-ALL fraction of two clones?) which falls in the same CD45vs.SSC gate but
seems negative for all other markers.

Any ideas?

Brian Newsom
Director, Flow Cytometry
Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine




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