
Episode 281: The Consult Question #8 – Pancytopenia and Rash
The Clinical Problem Solvers
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia AML
The patient had an uneventful bone marrow biopsy. The aspirin reveals a preponderance of what appears to be myeloid blasts, almost too many to count. And then we do a touch prep of the core which showed also increased blasts, likely myeloid in origin. At the same time, there is a biopsy obtained of a skin which just remains pending. So it sounds like we've got a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia.
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