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Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
large, immature myeloblasts ... a linear red "Auer ... acute myelogenous leukemia ... (AML) that is most ... Rods #AuerRods #AML
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
cells - Blood & BM ... • Cytopenia -> BM ... -> AML: Blast crises ... Neutrophils • Immature/Myeloblasts ... Age: 50-60 • Auer
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
promyelocytic leukemia ... a bone marrow (BM ... hospitalization and treatment ... (AML) t(8;21), ... AML with maturation
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (blood). Typical morphologic features are bilobed ("butterfly") nuclei with dispersed chromatin, subtle to
promyelocytic leukemia ... granules, and Auer ... KyleBradleyMD #Auer ... promyelocytic #leukemia ... #APL #APML #Pathology
Hyperviscosity Syndrome - Causes and Treatment

 - Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (most common) / Plasmapheresis 
 - Multiple
Syndrome - Causes and Treatment ... Plasmapheresis - Leukemia ... Hydroxyurea - Leukemia ... hyperleukocytosis (AML ... - MH/CCF/CWRU EM
Treatment Schema for Standard-Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Induction: 
 • Vincristine, Steroid (dexamethasone), L-Asparaginase, Intrathecal (IT) methotrexate
Consolidation
Treatment Schema ... Lymphoblastic Leukemia ... Cytarabine #ALL ... Lymphoblastic #Leukemia ... #Treatment #timeline
Tumor Lysis Syndrome
An acute, life-threatening condition that appears within 7 days of starting cytotoxic therapies in
Burkitt's lymphoma & ALL ... spontaneously (before any treatments ... lymphoma & Acute leukemia ... (both ALL and AML ... malignancies Treatments
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia ... • Most common leukemia ... - Leukemia cutis ... microglobulin Treatment ... Transform to DLBCL, PML
B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoblastic Lymphoma
Clinical
 - Primarily a disease of childhood, 75% <6 yo
 - Increased
Lymphoblastic Leukemia ... disease with limited BM ... iAMP21 - BCR-ABL-like ... lauraebrown #BCell #ALL ... Lymphoblastic #Leukemia
Lymphomas and Lymphoproliferative Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hodgkin Lymphoma ~40% - Characteristic For Reed-Sternberg (RS) Cells
Responsive to Treatment ... Treated Like Acute Leukemias ... growth, response to treatment ... relapse - Amy