Acute myelomonocytic leukaemia with pseudo-Chediak-Higashi inclusions in leukaemic blasts report of an unusual case

Haematologia (Budap). 2000;30(3):229-34. doi: 10.1163/156855900300109251.

Abstract

Giant inclusions in the blast cells resembling that of Chediak-Higashi syndrome have been reported only in a handful of cases with acute leukaemia. There is a paucity of data on the ultrastructural appearance of such unique light microscopic findings. As many of such patients were reported in late seventies and early eighties [1-4] the outcome of treatment using present day multiple induction/consolidation regimens in such patients has also been rarely reported due to the rarity of such patients. We report here on a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia showing pseudo-Chediak-Higashi inclusions in leukaemic blasts with unusual ultrastructural morphology.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Inclusion Bodies
  • Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute / pathology*
  • Leukocytes / pathology
  • Leukocytes / ultrastructure