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A 27-year-old woman arrives at the emergency department with acute bleeding and is found to have a white count of 25.7 × 10⁹L with pancytopenia: hematocrit 27%,platelet count 35 × 10⁹/L,and absolute neutrophil count 0.8 × 10⁹/L.She has a combination of 97% blasts and abnormal promyelocytes in her peripheral blood;some of these cells contain Auer rods.What form of leukemia does she most likely have?

A 27-year-old woman arrives at the emergency department with acute bleeding and is found to have a white count of 25.7 × 10⁹L with pancytopenia: hematocrit 27%,platelet count 35 × 10⁹/L,and absolute neutrophil count 0.8 × 10⁹/L.She has a combination of 97% blasts and abnormal promyelocytes in her peripheral blood;some of these cells contain Auer rods.What form of leukemia does she most likely have?


A) acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17) (q22:q12)
B) chronic myeloid leukemia
C) acute monoblastic leukemia
D) acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21) (q33:q22)

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