Hubbard leukemia Flashcards
what toxin is linked to AML
benzene
Treatment related AML in patients who received chemo for prior cancers . . what kind of agents?
alkylators
What kind of leukemia is NOT caused by radiation
CLL
in older patients with mild pancytopenia and macrocytosis, if you offer the diagnosis of these 2 things you will look like a rockstar
- myelodysplasia
- early AML
transfustion for APL
t(15;17)
in the acute leukemias (especially ALL) patients often complain of what
bone pain
- cutaneous manifestation of AML
- biopsy demonstrates myeloblasts in the dermis
- can be confused with pyoderma gangrenosum
Sweet’s syndrome aka acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (AFND)
how do you treat Sweet’s syndrome (AFND)
manage the AML
azurophilic rods in the cytoplasm of patients with AML
Auer rods
when Auer rods resemble a bundle of sticks in some patients with APL
faggot cells
What types of AML most commonly have gingival hypertrophy
M4 (acute myelomonocytic)
M5 (Acute monocytic)
Multiple smudge cells are seen in what
CLL
remnant of mitiotic spindle usually in erythrocytes
cabot rings
foamy big cells in bone marrow and not in peripheral blood
Gaucher cells
normal LDH
under 250-300
normal uric acid
7
when are schistocytes seen?
microangiopathic hemolytic anemia like TTP and HUS
normal level of fibrinogen
400
when do you see increased lysozyme levels
monocytic leukemias . . M4 and M5
patient with DIC and APL should be treated with what?
- All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) or
- arsenic trioxide