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General
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• See also Leukemia chapter
• Usually diagnosed by CSF cytology
• Blast crises of >300K may be associated with parenchymal or meningeal mass lesions and intravascular leukostasis, particularly in AML

Case reports
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• 47 year old woman with tumor of monoblasts (Arch Pathol Lab Med 1999;123:327)
• Relapse of acute myelogenous leukemia as a cerebellar myeloblastoma showing megakaryoblastic differentiation (Mod Pathol 1999;12:1186)

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