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Lineage involvement and karyotype in a patient with myelodysplasia and blood basophilia.

el-Rifai W, Pettersson T, Larramendy ML, Knuutila S
Eur J Haematol. 1994 53 (5): 288-92

PMID: 7813709 · DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0609.1994.tb01321.x

We report a 63-year-old woman with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), refractory anaemia with ring sideroblasts (RARS), and blood basophilia with pathological forms. Karyotype analysis revealed a complex rearrangement: 46,XX,del(3)(p13p25),del(5)(q13q33),der(16)t(1;16) (p13;q12)/47,idem,add(20)(?p11)/49,idem, + add(1)(q32),add(20)(?p11), + mar/46,XX. Karyotype, immunophenotype and in situ hybridization studies by the MAC (morphology antibody chromosomes) combination technique revealed the chromosomal abnormality in granulocytic/monocytic and erythrocytic metaphase cells. Also mature basophils and other granulocytes were involved with the abnormality. We suggest that our patient with the MDS has a stem cell disorder affecting all myeloid cell lineages and that basophilia constitutes a part of the malignant process.

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Basophils Chromosome Aberrations Chromosome Disorders Clone Cells Female Humans Karyotyping Microscopy, Fluorescence Middle Aged Myelodysplastic Syndromes

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