April 2019 — Anatomic and Clinical Pathology 2

An 82-year-old male with well-controlled HIV and macrocytic anemia undergoes a bone marrow biopsy. The morphologic findings are subtle, including few slightly atypical eosinophils on peripheral blood, mild granulocytic hyperplasia, a single paratrabecular cluster of eosinophils, and few spindled mast cells. There is no overall marrow or blood eosinophilia. Karyotype detects a t(4;22)(q12;q11.2) clonal abnormality involving PDGFRA (4q12) by break-apart FISH. Mate pair sequencing demonstrates a fusion between the PDGFRA and SPECC1L genes.

Peripheral Blood
Aspirate
Aspirate and IHC
Bone Marrow Core
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Photo of Daniel (Dan) P. Larson, M.D. Daniel (Dan) P. Larson, M.D.
Resident, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Mayo Clinic
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Senior Associate Consultant, Hematopathology
Mayo Clinic
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

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