Sea-Blue Histiocytosis of Bone Marrow in a Patient with t(8;22) Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Sea-Blue Histiocytosis of Bone Marrow in a Patient with t(8;22) Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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t(8;22) 急性髓系白血病患者骨髓海蓝色组织细胞增多症
DOI:
10.1159/000508495
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
Uemura Makiko
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作者:
Imataki Osamu;Uemura Makiko
An 80-year-old Japanese male was treated with chemotherapy consisting of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone, for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Nine months after the chemotherapy, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML)(M4) with translocation 8p11 and 22q13. The patient bone marrow indicated a remarkable degree of sea-blue histiocytosis. His disease was aggressive, and he died of the disease. Sea-blue histiocytes are macrophages harboring blue vacuoles and granular deposition, which results from the phagocytosis of dead cells and the subsequent deposition of phospholipids. AML with the t (8; 22)(p11; q13) translocation is a rare subtype of AML, which is a rare translocation with a prevalence of less than 1.0% among all AML cases. The oncogenesis of t (8; 22)(p11; q13) is caused by the fusion protein monocytic leukemia zinc finger protein (MOZ) and transcription factor p300. MOZ can be fused to various translocation targets including CBT, TIF2, and p300, corresponding to t (8; 16), inv (8), and t (8; 22), respectively. This subgroup of AML reveals the hallmarks of the disease, including monocytic arrest and erythro/hemophagocytosis by blasts. A substantial proportion of the AML M4/M5 subtype harboring MOZ as an aberrant fusion gene represents erythrophagocytosis. Although rare, t (8; 22) is very specific to the AML M4/M5 subtype and seems to represent sea-blue histiocytosis as one of the characteristic features of monocytic AML with macrophage activation. Thus, sea-blue histiocytes are considered to be one of hallmarks in monocytic AML with MOZ translocation.