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Concomitant tetrasomy 3q and trisomy 18 in CD5(-), CD13(+) chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Giorgina Specchia1, Francesco Albano, Luisa Anelli
1Department of Hematology, University of Bari, Policlinico, 70124 Bari, Italy. emadhba@cimedoc.uniba.it
Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics
|April 12, 2002
Abstract:
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) associated with myeloid antigens on the surface of B neoplastic cells is a recently identified immunologic variant confined to patients with CD5 negative B-CLL. We describe the case of a 61-year-old female diagnosed with CD5(-), CD13(+) B-CLL with a tetrasomy 3q revealed by fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis, in addition to trisomy 18. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of B-CLL with this kind of cytogenetic abnormality.