Ann Lab Med.  2019 Sep;39(5):493-495. 10.3343/alm.2019.39.5.493.

First Report of a Patient With Natural Killer-Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma in Korea

• Lee J
• Kim HY
• Han B
• Kim M
• Park JY
• Chung Y
• Lee YK

• KMID: 2450973
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2019.39.5.493

Abstract

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MeSH Terms

Humans
Korea*

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Immunohistochemical and flow cytometric analyses of the patient's blasts. (A) Large blasts with a high nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio and agranular cytoplasm on the bone marrow aspirate (Wright stain, ×400). (B) Blasts showed very fine nuclei with indentation and conspicuous nucleoli (Wright stain, ×1,000). (C) Flow cytometric analysis showed that the blasts were HLA-DR positive and CD13 negative, (D) CD7 positive and CD33 negative, (E) CD34 positive and CD19 negative, (F) CD56 positive and CD10 negative, (G) CD33 negative and CD117 negative, (H) cytoplasmic CD3 negative and CD79a negative, and (I) CD4 negative and CD8 negative.

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