Concurrent ABO blood type change and erythrophagocytosis by leukemic cells in a case of acute myeloblastic leukemia

Yamada, K.; Yoshizaki, Y.; Fujii, Y.; Inoue, M.; Ishida, Y.; Shinohara, K.; Kaneko, T.; Hiroshige, Y.; Matsumoto, N.

Nihon Ketsueki Gakkai Zasshi Journal of Japan Haematological Society 48(6): 1409-1413

1985


ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5806
PMID: 3867214
Document Number: 264009
We report a patient with acute myeloblastic leukemia, in whom a change in ABO blood type and erythrophagocytosis by leukemic myeloblasts were simultaneously noted. Both phenomena were transient, disappearing after hematological remission. We speculate that these events occurred incidentally, without a causal relationship between them.

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