title: Polyploidy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia with p53 deletion detected by fish: a case report.
abstract: We report a case of chronic lymphocytic leukemia with a characteristic cytogenetics finding detected by fluorescent in situ hybridization. This case has deletion in p53 gene in 50% of interphase nuclei studied in the peripheral blood and polyploidy in 30% of cells. To our knowledge polyploidy is not commonly reported with chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytogenetics, National Research Centre, El-Tahreer Street, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt. mahaeid67@gmail.com
authors.forename: Maha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eid
authors.forename: Hesham
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kayed
authors.forename: Hala T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: El-Bassyouni