RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cytogenetic analysis of a granulocytic sarcoma in a patient without systemic leukaemia.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 81
OP 82
DO 10.1136/jcp.44.1.81
VO 44
IS 1
A1 L R Adam
A1 B Angus
A1 P Carey
A1 E V Davison
YR 1991
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/44/1/81.abstract
AB Granulocytic sarcoma is a rare complication of leukaemia. Occasionally it presents before the development of systemic leukaemia when diagnosis may be difficult. A case of granulocytic sarcoma occurring in a patient with no overt evidence of leukaemia, but in whom cytogenetic analysis of the bone marrow showed a clonal t(12;13) translocation, is reported. Cytogenetic analysis of tissues in this disease may indicate evidence of systemic disease before overt morphological changes.