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●● Alternative names for AML.
Answer: ANLL or acute myelogenous leukemia
●● Epidemiology of AML.
Answer: Most common in adults; incidence increases with age; can
occur in children
●● Clinical features of anemia in AML.
Answer: pallor, fatigue
●● Clinical features of thrombocytopenia in AML.
Answer: bruising, petechiae, epistaxis, purpura
●● Clinical features of granulocytopenia in AML.
Answer: fever, chills, infection
●● Prognosis of untreated AML.
Answer: Rapidly fatal if untreated
, ●● Mean survival with treatment for AML.
Answer: ~2.5-3 years
●● Aggressive AML subtypes.
Answer: M4 and M5
●● WHO diagnostic criterion for AML.
Answer: ≥20% blasts
●● Auer rods.
Answer: 10-50% of cases, AML only
●● Type I blast.
Answer: no azurophilic granules (no differenation)
●● Type II blast.
Answer: some differentiation, <20 azurophilic granules
●● Peripheral blood smear findings in AML.
Answer: Usually many blasts; blasts may be absent (aleukemic
leukemia); Auer rods may be present