Progressive preleukemia with a chromosomally abnormal clone in a kindred
with the Estren-Dameshek variant of Fanconi's anemia
P Nowell, G Bergman, E Besa, D Wilmoth and B Emanuel
One of two sisters with hypoplastic anemia and increased chromosomal
fragility, but no clinical stigmata of Fanconi's anemia (FA), progressed to
preleukemia (with a clone of chromosomally abnormal cells in the bone
marrow), and then to acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. The findings indicate
that constitutional genetic instability can lead to karyotypically aberrant
neoplastic clones in the Estren-Dameshek variant of FA as well as in the
more typical chromosomal fragility syndromes.
Volume 64,
Issue 5,
pp. 1135-1138,
11/01/1984
Copyright © 1984 by The American Society of Hematology