Oncohematology

Bone Marrow Microscopy in ALL: Identify Dysplasia

A clinical case study on bone marrow cytology in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Identify cell lineage and dysplasia type on micrographs.

Bone marrow smear micrographs for the dysplasia assessment exercise
Bone marrow smear micrographs for the dysplasia assessment exercise

Myelodysplastic bone marrow morphology in a 5-year-old patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who was undergoing chemotherapy and had concomitant autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

a) Gaucher-like histiocyte, hemophagocytosing cell. ❓What kind of dysplasia is shown in images b-h?

Source: Fuchs O. - Myelodysplastic Syndromes, 2016.