chronic lymphocytic leukemia (cll) and chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) are the most common leukemias of the elderly (>43 year). however, the sequential occurrence of cml followed by cll in the same patient is extremely rare. in our report, a 52-year-old female was diagnosed with cll (type of bone marrow (bm) infiltration was nodular and interstitial) and was treated with chlorambucil. 64 months ...

myeloproliferative neoplasms (mpns) such as polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, primary myelofibrosis and chronic myeloid leukemia have too similar and accurate way to differentiate their is study of genetic disorders in these patients. philadelphia chromosome is a sure way to definitively diagnose cml. recently, jak2v617f mutation introduced as a diagnostic marker for other myeloprol...

objective: chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) is a malignant clonal disorder of hematopoietic stem cells which results in increase of myeloid cells, erythroid cells and platelets in the peripheral blood and hyperplasia in bone marrow. investigations have shown different types of bcr- abl variants in these patients. in iran only 3 types of these variants have been identified because most of the clin...

follicular dendritic cells or dendritic reticulum cells are important components of the immune system essential for antigen presentation. malignancies arising from these cells are uncommon and the first case was reported in 1986. the most common sites of follicular dendritic cell sarcomas are lymph nodes, especially cervical, axillary and mediastinal regions, but extranodal sites including head...

a 61-year-old female presented with complaints of fever, general weakness and hepatosplenomegaly. she had a history of nonfamilial peripheral neurofibromatosis diagnosed as von recklinghausen's disease since 30 years previous. physical examination was remarkable for skin colored cutaneous circumscribed nodules which appeared soft to the touch in both arms, the upper part of her abdomen, back, a...

homogeneously staining regions (hsr) or double minute chromosomes (dmin) are autonomously replicating extra-chromosomal elements that are frequently associated with gene amplifi cation in a variety of cancers. the diagnosis of leukemia patients was based on characterization of the leukemic cells obtained from bone marrow cytogenetics. this study report two cases, one with acute myeloblastic leu...

evidence acquisition the fifty two significant articles discussing the stem cell in chronic myeloid leukemia from 1996 to 2012 were selected according to the authors’ experience. results studies have shown that primitive cml cells are less responsive to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (tkis) and are a reservoir for the relapse of multi drug resistant (mdr). conclusions following that, minimal residu...

introduction: tyrosine kinase inhibitors (tkis) were the first drugs to use an intracellular signaling molecule as a therapeutic target. unresponsiveness to tkis limits therapeutic options, making allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) the only option leading to molecular remission. objectives: to characterize cml patients unresponsive to first- and/or second-generation tki t...

background: imatinib mesylate is the first generation of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (tki) and highly effective in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (cml). we aimed to evaluate thyroid function at baseline and at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after initiation of imatinib mesylate therapy in 20 newly diagnosed bcr-abl positive cml patients. methods: this study was done during 2013-2014, 20 new ca...

human t-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 , 2 (htlv-1, 2) is endemic in particular areas of the world in which it is associated with myeloid leukemia.in this study, we described the prevalence of htlv-1, 2 in myeloid leukemia and mycobacterium tuberculosis in iran. we have worked with tissue and blood samples for 2 years. these were the same samples which were positive for myeloid leukemia, mycoba...