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The use of the anti-factor VIII method on trephine biopsies of the bone marrow for the identification of immature and atypical megakaryocytes in myeloproliferative diseases and allied disorders

A morphometric study

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A morphometric analysis was performed on trephine biopsies of the bone marrow to identify atypical megakaryocyte proliferation following PAS staining and the immunohistological demonstration of factor VIII. This study includes nine patients with a megakaryoblastic crisis in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), four with acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AM) and three with myeloid dysplasia later evolving into overt acute leukemia. Comparison and statistical evaluation of the PAS reaction with anti-factor VIII staining reveals that the latter technique not only facilitates the recognition of immature and abnormal megakaryocytes, but leads to a significantly increased count for all megakaryocytic elements in the bone marrow. Thus our retrospective investigation of routinely processed and paraffin-embedded trephine biopsies shows that the diagnosis of a megakaryoblastic crisis in CML as well as AM may be easily established with the aid of the antifactor VIII method. In all cases of megakaryoblastic proliferation in CML and AM, the appearance of blasts was associated with moderate to pronounced myelofibrosis which could be also determined by morphometry.

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    J. Thiele, St. Wienhold, K. G. Simon & R. Fischer

  2. Institutes of Pathology, Free University Berlin-Steglitz, Federal Republic of Germany

    R. Krech

  3. First Clinic of Medicine, University of Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany

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Thiele, J., Krech, R., Wienhold, S. et al. The use of the anti-factor VIII method on trephine biopsies of the bone marrow for the identification of immature and atypical megakaryocytes in myeloproliferative diseases and allied disorders. Virchows Archiv B Cell Pathol 54, 89–97 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02899200

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