A 10-month-old infant with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) of 5 months' duration, who had been treated only with transfusion, displayed leukemic transformation characterized by lymphoid morphology, PAS positivity, and myeloperoxidase negativity. Surface marker analysis of blast cells revealed
Transformation of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia to acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Case report and review of the literature of lymphoblastic transformation of myelodysplastic syndrome
โ Scribed by Peter A. Kouides; John M. Bennett
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 549 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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