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A complex variant t(8;21) involving chromosome 3 in a child with acute myeloblastic leukemia with eosinophilia (AML M4Eo).
Leukemia & lymphoma - 1 Jan 2003
Mathew Susan, Shurtleff Sheila, Ribeiro Raul C, Behm Fred G, Raimondi Susana C
Abstract excerpt
Although the classic t(8;21) has been reported in 10 pediatric patients with acute myeloid leukemia with eosinophilia (AML M4Eo), no complex variant t(8;21) in children with AML M4Eo has been previously described. In our analysis of leukemic blasts from a 4-year-old boy with AML M4Eo, conventional cytogenetics revealed that 95% of the cells had a hypodiploid line containing 45 chromosomes and a complex karyotype...
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