What is the diagnosis?

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Old patient complaining of bone and joint pain, bleeding, recurrent infections. Labs show: lymphocytosis, myelocytes 3%, and myeloblast 2%.

What is the diagnosis?
A . AML
B . Thalassaemia
C . Sickle cell anemia
D . CML

Answer: D

Explanation:

Most common in Old and with usually increased WBC count and massive splenomegaly and characterized by Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome in bone marrow cells. ALL is most common in children. AML has more than 20% blasts on Bone marrow. Tip: The above patient is presented with acute Blasts crisis.

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