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The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 36 Issue 1-2
published_at 1989-06

Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia with Erythrophagocytosis and ABO Blood Type Change

Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia with Erythrophagocytosis and ABO Blood Type Change
Inoue Masamitsu
Araki Minako
Furuta Michie
Yamada Katsunori
Kaneko Toshio
Matsumoto Noboru
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A 61-year-old Japanese male developed acute myeloblastic leukemia in which ABO blood type change and erythrophagocytosis by leukemic myeloblasts ware simultaneously observed. His blood type was AmB at the time of diagnosis, and then changed to AB in association with hematological remission. Erythrophagocytosis by leukemic blasts also disappeared. Accmpanied with relapse of AML, erythrophagocytosis reappeared, though his blood type remained AB. We speculate that rare phenomena occurred incidentally and they are causally unrelated each other.
Creator Keywords
Acute myeloblastic leukemia
ABO blood type change
erythrophagocytosis