Acute Erythroid Leukemia
Primary Author(s)*
Ashwini Yenamandra PhD FACMG
Cancer Category/Type
Cancer Sub-Classification / Subtype
In the 2008 WHO classification, Acute Erythroid leukemia (AEL) was classified into two subtypes: Erythroleukemia (erythroid/myeloid) and Pure Erythroid Leukemia (PEL). However, in the 2016 WHO update, Erythroleukemia was merged into myelodysplastic syndrome, while PEL is now the only type of AEL [1-12].
Definition / Description of Disease
PEL is a rare form of acute leukemia with an aggressive clinical course and is characterized by an uncontrolled proliferation of immature erythroid precursors (proerythroblastic or undifferentiated) [1-12]. Erythroleukemia (erythroid/myeloid) may be de novo or evolved from myeloid or sometimes from myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) [1,10].
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References
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2. Shaowei Qiu, et al., (2017). An analysis of 97 previously diagnosed de novo adult acute erythroid leukemia patients following the 2016 revision to World Health Organization classification. BMC Cancer 17: 544, PMID 28793875.
3. Zhuang Zuo, et al., (2010). Acute Erythroid Leukemia (Review Article). Arch Pathol Lab Med 134:1261-1270, PMID 20807044.
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6. Grossmann V, et al., (2013). Acute erythroid leukemia (AEL) can be separated into distinct prognostic subsets based on cytogenetic and molecular genetic characteristics. Leukemia 27(9): 1940-1943, PMID 23648669.
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9. Wang SA, et al., (2015). Acute erythroleukemias, acute megakaryoblastic leukemias, and reactive mimics: a guide to a number of perplexing entities. Am J Clin Pathol 144(1):44-60, PMID 26071461.
10. Wang W, et al., (2016). Acute Erythroid Leukemia. Am J Hematol. 2017; 92:292–296, PMID 2800685.
11. Yenamandra A, et al., (2016). Acute Erythroblastic Leukemia (AEL): A rare subset of de novo AML with a complex rearrangement involving ETV6 locus and loss of RB1 locus. Int Clin Pathol J 2(2): 00032, DOI: 10.15406/icpjl.2016.02.00032.
12. Fauzia SF, et al., (2017). Pure erythroid leukemia: The sole acute erythroid leukemia. Int J Bone Marrow Res 1: 001-05 (open access).
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