title: [Clinical analysis of 24 cases of acute myeloid leukemia with 3q abnormalities].
abstract: To investigate the clinical characteristics of acute myeloid leukemia patients with 3q abnormalities.
  
  
  
  Conventional cytogenetic analysis of R-banding was used to detect the abnormalities of 3q in 657 patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
  
  
  
  Twenty-four (3.7%) out of 657 patients had abnormalities of 3q, of which 3q21 or 3q26 were involved in 18 cases (75.0%); 3q21q26 abnormalities were harbored in 11 patients (45.8%), including 9 of t (3;3) and 2 cases of inv (3), of which 3 cases progressed from MDS. Ten patients presented with normal or elevated platelets and their bone marrow morphologies showed abnormal and striking proliferation of megakaryocytes. While in other 7 patients with 3q21 or 3q26, no one presented with high platelets and megakaryocytes. All 24 patients with 3q abnormalities received chemotherapies and only 4 patients achieved short-term remission with a median survival time of 6.7 months.
  
  
  
  3q21q26 anomaly is the most common karyotype in acute myeloid patients with 3q abnormalities. The patients with 3q anomaly had extremely poorer treatment outcome and prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo 315000, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Zhi-mei
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Wei-lai
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Qi-tian
authors.initials: QT
authors.lastname: Mu
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002893:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3 / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult