Mori H, Tawara M, Yoshida Y, Kuriyama K, Sugahara K, Kamihira S, Tomonaga M
Department of Hematology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
Leuk Res. 2000 Jan;24(1):87-90. doi: 10.1016/s0145-2126(99)00145-9.
We describe an 84-year-old woman who presented severe pancytopenia and 36.6% of blasts accompanied with erythrophagocytosis in the bone marrow. According to cytochemical and immunological findings, a diagnosis of minimally differentiated acute myeloid leukemia (AML-M0) was established. Cytogenetic analysis revealed del(20)(q11) which were previously reported for one case each of ALL and MDS associated with cytophagocytosis by blasts, leading us to speculate a disease entity. Interestingly, a high expression of mRNA of TNF-alpha was detected by RT-PCR on the bone marrow mononuclear cells.
我们描述了一位84岁的女性,她出现严重全血细胞减少,骨髓中原始细胞占36.6%,伴有红细胞吞噬现象。根据细胞化学和免疫学检查结果,确诊为微分化急性髓系白血病(AML-M0)。细胞遗传学分析显示del(20)(q11),此前曾有1例急性淋巴细胞白血病(ALL)和1例骨髓增生异常综合征(MDS)伴有原始细胞吞噬现象的病例报告过此情况,这使我们推测存在一种疾病实体。有趣的是,通过逆转录聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR)检测发现骨髓单个核细胞中肿瘤坏死因子-α(TNF-α)的mRNA表达水平较高。