aleukaemic leukaemia
aleukaemic leukaemia
DermatologyAleukaemic leukaemia cutis, see there.
Haematology
(1) Myelodysplastic syndrome, see there.
(2) A variant of acute leukaemia, where the peripheral blood reveals pancytopenia and few discernible blast cells on peripheral blood smears; leukaemic cells are seen only by a bone marrow biopsy.
Aleukaemic leukaemia is uncommon and histologically slotted into the non-lymphocytic, non-myeloid and non-monocytic category by the ICD-O code; cases of aleukaemic leukaemia and aleukaemic myelosis may be subsumed under myelodysplastic syndrome