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. 2018 Mar 10;149(5):418–424. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqy002

Table 1.

Characteristics of Diagnostic Cases

Characteristic Value
No. of specimens 204
No. of individual FISH tests (probes or probe sets) 791
Patient age, median (range), y 63 (19-85)
No. of men/women (ratio) 124/80 (1.5)
Diagnosis, No. (%)
 AML RCA 37 (18.1)a
 AML NOS 88 (43.1)
 AML MRC 67 (32.8)
 tAML 11 (5.4)
 MPAL 1 (0.5)

AML MRC, acute myeloid leukemia with myelodysplasia-related changes; AML NOS, acute myeloid leukemia not otherwise specified; AML RCA, acute myeloid leukemia with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization; MPAL, mixed-phenotype acute leukemia; tAML, therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia.

aCytogenetic findings in AML RCA cases: t(8;21) in three (1%), inv(16) in 12 (6%), t(15;17) in 14 (7%), KMT2A in five (2.5%), t(6;9) in one (0.5%), inv(3) in two (1%).