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this is a case of a 17-year-old female presenting with fever, body malaise and a 1-year history of hematoma on her trunk and extremities... initial CBC and peripheral smear pointed to pancytopenia so the attending considered aplastic anemia, thus bone marrow study was requested... on examination, the bone marrow aspirates were hypercellular with complete sequential maturation and several myeloblasts, promyelocytes and myelocytes exhibited auer rods... diagnosis: ACUTE MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA WITH MATURATION (FAB - AML M2)...
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