Translocation (15;17) in a child with variant form of acute promyelocytic leukemia

Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 1983 Sep;10(1):117-20. doi: 10.1016/0165-4608(83)90112-7.

Abstract

We present the cytogenetic and hematologic study of a 6-year-old child with a variant form of acute promyelocytic leukemia (M3) who died of a brain hemorrhage. The brief survival and the hyperleukocytosis (greater than 200,000 mm3) suggests a very bad prognosis in children with this variant form of M3 leukemia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bone Marrow / pathology
  • Child
  • Chromosomes, Human, 13-15*
  • Chromosomes, Human, 16-18*
  • Genetic Variation
  • Humans
  • Karyotyping
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / genetics*
  • Male
  • Translocation, Genetic*