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Ultrastructural characteristics and lysozyme content in hypergranular and variant type of acute promyelocytic leukaemia.
We investigated the electronmicroscopic (EM) features and cellular lysozyme (LZ) content in 16 cases of acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL): 11 cases of the hypergranular form (M3) and five cases of the microgranular variant (M3-V). The main EM features in all cases were: irregular, folded or bilobed nuclei, many cytoplasmic granules, distended rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) cisternae which, in some cases, presented as stellate forms (more frequent in M3-V), and bundles of cytoplasmic microfilaments. Many Auer rods were present in M3 cases and few in M3-V; most of these disclosed parallel tubular arrays (PTA) with a varied periodicity ranging from 13 to 26 nm. There was a significant difference between M3 and M3-V (P<0.0001) in both the number of granules per cell section (62.9 +/- 34.5 v 38.0 +/- 23.6) and in the granule section area (0.044 +/- 0.033 v 0.026 +/- 0.015 microm2). In some cases, mainly in M3-V, we found cells with large granules containing PTA which probably represent poorly developed Auer rods. Intracellular LZ content assayed by a post-embedding immunogold method, showed high granular LZ density (in the range of that found in M4 and M5) in M3 cells and very low granular LZ content in M3-V. This study adds new objective parameters for the diagnosis of these two types of APL and provides new information on their LZ pattern of expression.
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