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Acute promyelocytic Leukaemia with t(15;17)

Author: Nidia P. Zapata, MD, 07/03/2018
Category: Myeloid Neoplasms and acute leukemia (WHO 2016)
Published Date: 07/03/2018

a 46 years old male begins with a historyof a  5 months  with  lumbar pain he goes to a Hospital 4 months after, a blood test, found to have hemoglobin of 11.3g/dL, platelets of 108thounsand/mm3,  leukocyte of 6,900thounsands/mm3, with 33% blast.

A Bone marrow aspirate is perform with these findings

FISH for t(15;17): PML/RAR:93%