Blood Res.  2020 Jun;55(2):115-117. 10.5045/br.2020.2020012.

An interesting story of a clone

• Juneja R
• Veetil KK
• Gupta G
• Dange P
• Pati H

• KMID: 2503487
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5045/br.2020.2020012

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  Fig. 1 Hematoxylin and eosin-stained bone marrow biopsy section (×10) from the year 2010 showing hypocellular marrow, with overall cellularity of less than 5% (A). A Jenner and Giemsa-stained bone marrow aspirate smear (×10) from the year 2018 showing more than 90% blasts (B).

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  Fig. 2 Conventional cytogenetics, by G banding, of the bone marrow revealing Ph chromosome t (9; 22) (q34:q11) and t (7; 17) (q22:q21).

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