CD33, CD4-double positive blastic transformation in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia

Int J Hematol. 1993 Jun;57(3):265-8.

Abstract

We report a 19-year-old female with blastic transformation of chronic myelogenous leukemia whose blasts had CD33 and CD4 phenotypes, although no significant characteristics were detected by morphological and histochemical analysis. In a colony assay with hematopoietic growth factors, the blasts proliferated and differentiated into myelo-monocytic lineage, particularly in the presence of GM-CSF or IL-3 + G-CSF. The blasts transformed from CML were assumed to be myelo-monocytic progenitor cells, corresponding to GM colonies. Blastic transformation expressing such a phenotype has not been reported previously.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Antigens, CD / analysis*
  • Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic / analysis*
  • Blast Crisis / immunology*
  • Blast Crisis / pathology
  • CD4 Antigens / analysis*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunophenotyping
  • Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / immunology*
  • Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / pathology
  • Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 3

Substances

  • Antigens, CD
  • Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic
  • CD33 protein, human
  • CD4 Antigens
  • Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 3