PML-RARA Fusion Transcripts Detectable 8 Months prior to Promyelocytic Blast Crisis in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

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Bone marrow at diagnosis of promyelocytic blast crisis. Promyelocytes with multiple Auer rods (a) and sliding plate nuclear morphology (b) in bone marrow aspirate smears. The bone marrow clot section demonstrates a mildly hypercellular bone marrow with increased promyelocytes (c).