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| Year : 2009 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 257-259 |
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Transient leukemia
Hema Anand, Sameer Bakhshi, Renu Saxena
Department of Haematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi - 110 029, India
Correspondence Address:
Renu Saxena
Department of Haematology, 1st Floor IRCH Building, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delih - 110 029
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0377-4929.48938
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A new born with a mongoloid slant, brachycephaly and low-set ears presented at birth with a total leucocyte count of 57 x 10 3 /µL and the differential leucocyte count revealed 70% of these to be blasts. The morphology of the blasts was not characteristic of myeloid and lymphoid lineage. Cytochemistry showed myeloperoxidase (MPO), Sudan Black B (SBB), periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) and non-specific esterase (NSE) negativity. Flowcytometry showed blasts that were positive for CD-33, CD-34 and CD-7. On second follow-up on the 10th day, the same picture persisted on morphology. On subsequent follow-up, the blasts disappeared. This was thus confirmed to be a case with transient leukemia with Downs syndrome. |
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