Hemepath Teaching Case
12-day-old female with 23 weeks of gestation and anemia.
Procedure: Peripheral blood for CBC.
Bone marrow biopsy of the left posterior superior iliac crest shows hypercellular bone marrow with diffuse involvement by a B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder with features most consistent with mantl
The bone marrow biopsy shows hypercellular marrow with increased blasts (37%) and eosinophilia, consistent with Acute Leukemia (AML-M4 by history), in relapse.
The first bone marrow biopsy shows acute myeloid luekemia without differentiation. Flow cytometry results confirm the myeloid lineage of the leukemia.
The bone marrow biopsy shows multiple myeloma with plasma cell leukemia.
The bone marrow biopsy shows hypocellular marrow with severe morphologic changes, suggestive of Myelodysplastic Syndrome.
The first bone marrow biopsy shows acute lymphoblastic leukemia with aberrant expression of myeloid antigen.
After six cycles of chemotherapy, this patient diagnosed with Stage IV Mantle Cell Lymphoma showed no evidence of lymphoma in his bone marrow biopsy.