Gaucher disease diagnosed after bone marrow trephine biopsy - a report of two cases

Folia Histochem Cytobiol. 2011;49(2):352-6. doi: 10.5603/fhc.2011.0048.

Abstract

The hematologist is at the forefront of specialists to whom patients with Gaucher disease present because of cytopenia and hepatosplenomegaly. Usually, patients with such symptoms have undergone trephine biopsy. We present the cases of two patients in whom Gaucher disease was suspected because of the discovery of Gaucher cells in trephine biopsy, and subsequently confirmed via enzymatic and molecular investigations.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antigens, CD / metabolism
  • Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic / metabolism
  • Biopsy
  • Bone Marrow / pathology*
  • Female
  • Gaucher Disease / diagnosis*
  • Gaucher Disease / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Male

Substances

  • Antigens, CD
  • Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic
  • CD68 antigen, human