title: Trisomy 21 as the sole clonal aberration in a patient with acute myelomonocytic leukemia with abnormal bone marrow eosinophils and extramedullary involvement.
abstract: We describe a 30-year-old acute myelomonocytic leukemia patient with abnormal bone marrow eosinophils (AML FAB subtype M4Eo) with extensive extramedullary involvement and, in the abscence of an aberration involving chromosome 16, clonal trisomy 21 in the leukemic blast cells.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Hämatologie und Onkologie, Universität, München, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dengler
authors.forename: J U
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Walther
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Emmerich
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000616:Aminoglutethimide / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology*; D003613:Danazol / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D015479:Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D013629:Tamoxifen / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D013629:Tamoxifen; D000616:Aminoglutethimide; D003613:Danazol