A child with "intermediate" B-ALL, a stage considered by some to be between "Pre - B" and "Mature B" classifications


Phenotype - CD2/CD10/CD19/CD22/CD34/Surface Mu chains/Kappa-Lambda neg/TdT neg

These blasts showed a high degree of sensitivity to lysing reagents and morphological examination of the bone marrow showed them to be equally mechanically fragile

Shown below in quadrant (2) is the aberrant & variable expression of CD2 on this patient's lymphoblasts

Quadrant (1) shows normal CD2 positive lymphocytes



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