BACKGROUND: Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is considered a hematologic emergency due to high risk of bleeding and fatal hemorrhages being a major cause of death. Despite lower death rates reported from clinical trials, patient registry data sugge...
While optical microscopy inspection of blood films and bone marrow aspirates by a hematologist is a crucial step in establishing diagnosis of acute leukemia, especially in low-resource settings where other diagnostic modalities are not available, the...
BACKGROUND: Acute leukaemias are life-threatening haematological cancers characterised by the infiltration of transformed immature haematopoietic cells in the blood and bone marrow. Prompt and accurate diagnosis of the three main acute leukaemia subt...
Leukemia is highly heterogeneous, meaning that different types of leukemia require different treatments and have different prognoses. Current clinical diagnostic and typing tests are complex and time-consuming. In particular, all of these tests rely ...