Oncohematology

Megaloblasts in Bone Marrow After Acute Leukemia Therapy

Bone marrow findings in acute leukemia after a course of therapy: erythroid hyperplasia, mixed hematopoiesis, normoblasts, and megaloblasts.

Bone marrow smear: mixed hematopoiesis, normoblasts and megaloblasts
Bone marrow smear: mixed hematopoiesis, normoblasts and megaloblasts

The photograph shows the bone marrow of a patient with acute leukemia after a course of treatment. In the complete blood count: leukopenia, anemia, normal platelets. In the bone marrow, blasts are 0.5%. The erythroid lineage is expanded. Mixed hematopoiesis. In the photo, in addition to normoblasts, there are many megaloblasts.

🙏 The publication was kindly provided by the laboratory physician Nana Novikova, CHUZ “KB” RZHD-Meditsina", Smolensk.