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| IMAGE IN HEMATOLOGY |
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| Year : 2019 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 36 |
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Acute myelomonocytic leukemia demonstrating erythrophagocytosis on cerebral spinal fluid cytology
Hiu Lam Agnes Yuen1, Jake Shortt2
1 Department of Haematology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia
2 Department of Haematology, Monash Health, Melbourne; School of Clinical Sciences, Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
| Date of Web Publication | 30-Apr-2019 |
Correspondence Address:
Prof. Hiu Lam Agnes Yuen
Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Rd., Clayton VIC 3168
Australia
Jake Shortt
Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Rd., Clayton VIC 3168
Australia
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DOI: 10.4103/joah.joah_2_19
How to cite this article:
Agnes Yuen HL, Shortt J. Acute myelomonocytic leukemia demonstrating erythrophagocytosis on cerebral spinal fluid cytology. J Appl Hematol 2019;10:36 |
How to cite this URL:
Agnes Yuen HL, Shortt J. Acute myelomonocytic leukemia demonstrating erythrophagocytosis on cerebral spinal fluid cytology. J Appl Hematol [serial online] 2019 [cited 2023 May 29];10:36. Available from: https://www.jahjournal.org/text.asp?2019/10/1/36/257467 |
A 73-year-old male with newly diagnosed acute myelomonocytic leukemia with complex karyotype (46, X,-Y, del(8)(q24q24),+r(5)/47, sl,+r(2)/48, sdl,+r(13).ish del(8)(MYC-), r(MYC amp)) was referred with papilledema on day 11 of cytarabine and thioguanine induction. His complete blood count showed hemoglobin 95 g/L, leukocytes 4.6 × 109/L, and platelets 29 × 109/L, with no circulating blasts evident on microscopic film review.
His initial diagnostic specimens demonstrated prominent erythrophagocytosis on peripheral blood and bone marrow aspirate ([Figure 1]. Panel A and B; May-Grunwald Giemsa (MGG) stain, original magnification ×1000). Following a normal magnetic resonance imaging scan, a lumbar puncture was performed; the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) had 32 × 106/L leukocytes with 14 × 106/L red cells. A cytological preparation demonstrated blasts, some with erythrophagocytosis ([Figure 1]. Panel C; MGG stain, original magnification ×400). | Figure 1: Acute myelomonocytic leukemia demonstrating erythrophagocytosis on peripheral blood (Panel A), bone marrow aspirate (Panel B) and cerebral spinal fluid cytology (Panel C)
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The patient received additional intrathecal chemotherapy and achieved both marrow and CSF complete remission.
Involvement of the central nervous system by acute myeloid leukemia is uncommon but well recognized in the context of monocytic differentiation. Erythrophagocytosis in this CSF specimen is putatively attributable to an ex vivo interaction between blasts and red cells introduced at the time of lumbar puncture.
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