Hematology Case 35
Hematology Case 35
Presented By Dr Mohammad Moharram
Released on 12-5-20206 year old boy.
Patient referred from a central hospital with pancytopnea.
Pancytopnea as reported in referral form.
Bone marrow aspirate and immunophenotyping see below.
Bone marrow aspirate smear is normocellular and infiltrated by 32% blast cells.
Blast cells : small to medium-sized with scant cytoplasm and inconspicuous nucleoli.
Immunophenotyping was done and result is above (Picture). The gated blasts are 30.4% using CD45/SSC gating strategy.
30.4% gated blasts express an immunophenotype suggestive of Early Precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ETP-ALL)