A Preliminary Study of the Suitability of Archival Bone Marrow and Peripheral Blood Smears for Diagnosis of CML Using FISH

Table 1

Pretreatment full blood count profile of study population.

Parameter	Study subject,	Ranges
	Median
Leucocyte count (×10^9/L)	253.1	20.7–636.8
Platelet count (×10^9/L)	446.2	46.0–1051.0
Haemoglobin (g/dL)	8.2	5.2–11.5
Neutrophils (%)**	67.6	45.7–89.3
Eosinophils (%)**	2.2	0.1–12.3
Basophils (%)**	4.5	0.0–25.0

Table 1 shows the full blood count profile of the 20 subjects at diagnosis. NB: % = percentage. **Absolute values for the differential counts were not available for majority of subjects at diagnosis; hence, percentage differential count was used.