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A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
promyelocytic leukemia (APL ... In addition to APL ... ) t(8;21), AML with ... Clinical #Path #BloodSmear ... Rods #AuerRods #APL
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (blood). Typical morphologic features are bilobed ("butterfly") nuclei with dispersed chromatin, subtle to
overt cytoplasmic granules ... I see all of these ... promyelocytic #leukemia #APL ... #APML #Pathology ... Hematology #Clinical #Smear
Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
of crystallized granules ... myelogenous leukemia (AML ... Clinical #Path #BloodSmear ... #Blood #Smear # ... Rods #AuerRods #AML
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
-> AML: Blast crises ... Lymphadenopathy AML ... cutaneous plaques) AML ... distinctive primary granules ... Leukemia #Hematology #Oncology
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
Peripheral Smear ... involve one, two, or all ... transformation to AML ... progression to AML ... diagnosis #hematology #oncology