title: [Correlation between cellular and cytogenetic morphology using fluorescence in situ hybridization in the study of malignant hemopathies].
abstract: The in situ hybridization technique (ISH), using specific chromosome DNA probes on stained bone marrow or peripheral blood smears, allow us to correlate morphological findings with the cytogenetic abnormalities detected by conventional cytogenetic analysis. We have applied this methodology to study three patients, two of them diagnosed of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and one with a myeloid blast crisis of chronic myeloid leukaemia (BC-CML). Conventional cytogenetic analysis showed, among other chromosomal abnormalities, a trisomy 8 in two cases and a trisomy 7 in one case. ISH demonstrated that cytogenetic clonality was restricted to the lymphoblasts in both cases with ALL. In the BC-CML patient, myeloid blasts as well as mature and semimature granulocytic elements showed three hybridization signals. ISH correlating morphological and cytogenetic findings may be a useful technique for lineage as well as for the follow-up of the haematological patients.
authors.affiliation: Servei d'Hematología, Hospital de Sant Pau, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Martín-Henao
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aventín
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Espadaler
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Moltó
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001752:Blast Crisis / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D014411:Neoplastic Stem Cells / Q000737:chemistry / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D014314:Trisomy
vernacular_title: Correlación entre morfología celular y citogenética mediante hibridación in situ fluorescente en el estudio de hemopatías malignas.