Six cases with Down's syndrome who had initially clinical and hematological pictures resembling acute leukemia are reported.
Case 1 and 2 were thought to be typical acute myeloblastic leukemia, while progressed in around two years.
In case 3-6, all the findings suggesting leukemia disappeared spontaneously in later stages. Case 3 and 4 died accidentally of other than leukemia. Their autopsy did not suggest any findings of leukemia.
The leukemia-like blood picture observed newborn period of Down's syndrome, such as case 3-6 were tentatively nominated as “Transient abnormal myelopoiesis (TAM).”
Our cases categorized as TAM had such charactersics as follows;
1) Onset was at less age than six weeks.
2) High white blood cell count was observed with high percentage of blast cells.
3) The percentage of blast cells was lower in bone marrow than in peripheral blood.
4) Remarkable hepatosplenomegaly.
5) Blast cells resembled morphologically to myeloblasts, but their peroxidase staining was negative in most cells. PAS staining was also negative.
6) No marker chromosome.
7) Extramedullary hematopoiesis.
8) Their clinical conditions were spontaneously improved and cured without special therapies.
9) No autopsy findings suggested leukemia.
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