Bone smear from a patient with acute
monoblastic leukemia, M5A. The blasts have a
moderate amount of cytoplasm and somewhat
coarse nuclei. The nucleoli are not unusually
prominent. The blasts were positive with the
nonspecific esterase stain and the patient had an
associated T(9;11) chromosome abnormality.
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