7 results
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
(APL) following ... (AML) t(8;21), ... AML with maturation ... Microscopy #Auer #Rods #AuerRods ... #APL
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
: ALL, CML, AML, ... APML, CLL Acute ... -> AML: Blast crises ... Lymphadenopathy AML ... distinctive primary granules
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (blood). Typical morphologic features are bilobed ("butterfly") nuclei with dispersed chromatin, subtle to
promyelocytic leukemia ... overt cytoplasmic granules ... I see all of these ... promyelocytic #leukemia ... #APL #APML #Pathology
Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
of crystallized granules ... acute myelogenous leukemia ... (AML) that is most ... Microscopy #Auer #Rods #AuerRods ... #AML
Presentation of malignant disease in children 
Pre-school (<5 years old) 
 - Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
- (ALL) - peak ... (ALL) - Brain ... (ALL) - Hodgkin ... Presentation #Malignant #Childhood ... #Peds #Pediatrics
B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoblastic Lymphoma
Clinical
 - Primarily a disease of childhood, 75% <6 yo
 - Increased
Lymphoblastic Leukemia ... Primarily a disease of childhood ... iAMP21 - BCR-ABL-like ... lauraebrown #BCell #ALL ... Lymphoblastic #Leukemia
Treatment Schema for Standard-Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Induction: 
 • Vincristine, Steroid (dexamethasone), L-Asparaginase, Intrathecal (IT) methotrexate
Consolidation
Lymphoblastic Leukemia ... Cytarabine #ALL ... Lymphoblastic #Leukemia ... oncology #pediatrics #peds