[Clinical features of pure erythroid leukemia--case report and review of literature].
OBJECTIVE
To report a case of pure erythroid leukemia.


METHODS
The clinical features, treatment and prognosis of a rare case of pure erythroid leukemia were reported, and the related literature was reviewed.


RESULTS
The pure erythroid leukemia patient was diagnosed by 90.4% pronormoblasts in bone marrow, 99.5% for erythroid antigen CD71, 67.4% for glycophorin A were detected, while no differentiation antigen of myeloid, lymphoid and megakaryocyte lineages were observed. HAG (homoharringtonine + Cytarabine and G-CSF) regimen were administered with no effect. The patient developed multiple organ failure and died soon.


CONCLUSIONS
Pure erythroid leukemia has a fulminant clinical course with poor response to chemotherapy and worse prognosis.
Zhang
Yan-Ming
YM
Department of Hematology, Second People's Hospital of Huai'an, Huai'an 223002, China.
Wu
De-Pei
DP
Sun
Yu-Mei
YM
Lu
Shu-Hua
SH
Zhu
Ming-Qing
MQ
D006801:Humans; D004915:Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis