Carmen Silvia Passos Lima, MD, PhDDepartamento de Clinica Medica, Faculdade de Ciencias MedicasUniversidade Estadual de CampinasRua Alexander Fleming no 181, Cidade Universitaria Zeferino Vaz, Distrito de Barao Geraldo13083-970 – Campinas, SP, BrasilTel.: (019) 3788 7496; Fax: (019) 3788 7496E-mail: carmenl@fcm.unicamp.br
have generally been found in AML subtypeM2 patients with t(8;21)(q22;q22) treated withconventional chemotherapy regimens, this translocationhas been considered as a prognostic indicator offavourable outcomes.Herein, we present for educational purposes, theimages obtained from bone marrow cytological andcytogenetics analyses (Figures 1 and 2) of a AML subtype
Herein, we showed with an educational purpose, theimage obtained from the karyotype of one MDS patientwith t(11;21)(q13;q22) seen in our service, whose father,who did not suffer from any haematological disease,presented the same chromosomal abnormality.The patient, a 20-year-old woman, was referred tohospital in May 1999 due to anaemia. No