Faggot cells in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

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Faggot cells in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

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Author: Martin Pacheco, MD; Javier Lopez Salazar, MD; Juan Manuel Perez Zuñiga, MD
Category: Myeloid Neoplasms and acute leukemia (WHO 2016) > Acute Myeloid Leukemia > Acute Myeloid Leukemia with recurrent genetic abnormalities > AML with t(15;17)(q22;q12); PML-RARA (and variants)
Published Date: 03/22/2022

A 54 year-old man was refered to our center for evaluation for a presumtive diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia M2 of the FAB classification. Upon examination of bone marrow smear there were hypergranular promyelocytes, with abundant cytoplasm and round/oval nuclei, some of which presented abundant Auer Rods (Faggot cells). Report of bone marrow PCR showed t(15;17)(PML-RARA),bcr1,L-form.

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