title: Congenital dyserthropoietic anaemia other than type I to III with a peculiar erythroblastic morphology.
abstract: Here, we report the case of a child who, since birth, showed persistent macrocytosis and elevated mean corpuscular volume of the erythrocytes. Bone marrow biopsy revealed gross disorganisation of the erythroblastic series both at the light and electron microscopic examination, with complete absence of dysplastic features in the granulocytic and megakaryocytic series. Common causes of macrocytosis were excluded. The spectrum of morphological findings were not consistent with any of the classical types of congenital dyserythropoietic anaemias (CDAs) and serological findings of CDA type II were absent. The most outstanding feature was a marked irregularity of the nuclear outline of the late erythroblasts that presented thick-ending finger-like projections. The combination of macrocytosis without anaemia and these morphologic erythroblastic changes have not been previously reported in the setting of classical and variant forms of CDAs.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Citologia Hematológica 'Soledad Woessner-IMAS', Hospital del Mar Barcelona, Spain. 3046swc@comb.es
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Woessner
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trujillo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Florensa
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Mesa
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Wickramasinghe
mesh_terms: D000742:Anemia, Dyserythropoietic, Congenital / Q000097:blood / Q000473:pathology*; D001706:Biopsy; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D004900:Erythroblasts / Q000473:pathology*; D004909:Erythrocyte Indices; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron