Acute promyelocytic leukemia presenting with atypical basophils

Afshin Shameli; Kareem Jamani

doi:10.1002/ccr3.2686

Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2020)

Acute promyelocytic leukemia presenting with atypical basophils

Afshin Shameli,
Kareem Jamani

Affiliations

Afshin Shameli: Division of Hematology Alberta Precision Laboratories, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Calgary Calgary AB Canada
Kareem Jamani: Division of Hematology and Hematological Malignancies Department of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary AB Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2686
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 3
pp. 584 – 585

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Abstract We describe a case of acute promyelocytic leukemia with circulating aberrant basophils. Recent studies have shown that basophilic differentiation is not uncommon in APL and likely under‐recognized in morphologic and immunophenotypic assessments.

Published in Clinical Case Reports

ISSN: 2050-0904 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20500904

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