The cytogenetic aberrations inv(16)(p13.1q22)/t(16;16)(p13.1;q22), frequently detected in acute myelomonocytic leukemia with eosinophilia (FAB type M4eo), are generally considered a prognostically favorable subgroup.
We report a case of acute myeloid leukemia with morphologic features of M7 according to the FAB (French-American-British) classification and severe eosinophilia in the peripheral blood and bone marrow at diagnosis.
All had been diagnosed as acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), 27 FAB subtype M2 and two M1, comprising 5% of all cytogenetically analysed AML during 18 yr. Auer rods were the most consistent t(8;21)-associated morphological finding and were demonstrated in 92% of the reviewed BM specimens, whereas BM eosinophilia was seen in only 24%.
We report a case of acute myeloblastic leukaemia (AML), FAB type M2, with karyotype t(8;21)(q22;q22), who at the time of relapse showed marked eosinophilia of the bone marrow.
Acute myelomonocytic leukemia with bone marrow eosinophilia (AML-M4Eo in the French-American-British FAB] classification) is frequently associated with pericentric inversion of chromosome 16, inv(16)(p13q22).
A two-year-old girl presenting with de novo acute myelomonocytic leukemia with eosinophilia (French-American-British [FAB] classification, M4Eo) and inv(16)(p13q22), t(1;16)(q32;q22) involving the same chromosome 16 is described.
The patients exhibited such clinical and hematological pictures, characterized by M2 and M4 with eosinophilia (FAB classification), as relatively matured leukemic cells, low neutrophil alkaline phosphatase activity, abnormal eosinophils and a high count of monocytic cells in the bone marrow.
A 44-year-old Japanese male having refractory anemia with excess of blasts (RAEB) preceding acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AMMoL) with dysplastic marrow eosinophilia (M4Eo in the FAB classification) is reported.
The abnormalities were an interstitial deletion in two cases of ANLL FAB type M4 and M4 with eosinophilia, a terminal deletion in two cases of M4 and M5 type ANLL, and a translocation in an M2 ANLL.
Cytogenetic studies in a case of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, type M4-FAB with eosinophilia, showed an acquired abnormal karyotype characterized by both a t(9;22) Philadelphia translocation and a pericentric inversion of chromosome 16, inv(16)(p13q22).
A 37-year-old Japanese male patient with acute myelomonocytic leukemia subtype M4 (according to FAB classification) associated with bone marrow eosinophilia and specific chromosome abnormalities: a pericentric inversion of chromosome 16, inv(16)(p13q22); a long arm deletion of chromosome #7, del(7)(q22q34); and a gain of chromosomes #8 and #22 is reported.