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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a case of essential thrombocythemia
K K Woronzoff-Dashkoff1, C E Litz
1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
|August 1, 1996
Abstract:
Essential thrombocythemia is a myeloproliferative disorder that infrequently evolves into acute leukemia. Leukemic transformation is frequently preceded by therapy with alkylating agents or radioactive phosphorus (32P), and is virtually always myeloid in nature. In this report, the authors describe a case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia arising in a patient with long-standing essential thrombocythemia.