Gilbertson Michael, Tuckfield Annabel, Juneja Surender
Department of Diagnostic Haematology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC 3050, Australia.
Case Rep Hematol. 2012;2012:167653. doi: 10.1155/2012/167653. Epub 2012 Apr 12.
We present the case of a 70-year-old woman who had a bone marrow examination performed to investigate marked thrombocytopenia in the context of a recent history of metastatic glucagonoma. Surprisingly this identified marked dysmegakaryopoiesis and fulfilled diagnostic criteria for refractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia, with a relatively uncommon associated cytogenetic lesion t(1;7). We present the case and review the literature of this cytogenetic lesion.