Lymphoblastic crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Hand mirror variant.

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We present, to our knowledge, the first extensively studied case of lymphoid L2 blast crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia with a hand mirror cell (HMC) variant. Special stains revealed the leukemic cells to be terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase positive by immunofluorescence and cytochemically positive for alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase and acid phosphatase (diffuse granular). Immunophenotyping identified...

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