PMID- 6584027 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19840406 LR - 20190511 IS - 0002-9173 (Print) IS - 0002-9173 (Linking) VI - 81 IP - 3 DP - 1984 Mar TI - The prevalence of hand-mirror cells in acute myeloblastic and lymphoblastic leukemia. PG - 355-7 AB - To evaluate the prevalence and significance of hand-mirror cells (HMC) in acute leukemia, 214 cases were studied retrospectively. They were classified by FAB and included 102 pediatric and 112 adult cases. Greater than 10% HMC were found in 6.5%. No overall difference was noted with age group, though HMC were more common in lymphoblastic cases (10% versus 3%). However, the greatest number of HMC were found in four adult cases, three of which were myeloblastic. Of the lymphoblastic cases with greater than 10% HMC, T and B studies were done in three that were typed as one T cell and two non-T cell (L1, CALL+; L3, sIg+). Forty-eight other cases with less than 10% HMC included 13 T cell and 35 non-T cell. The authors conclude that HMC may not correlate with morphologic or immune cell type and they do not appear to be a specific marker for a type of lymphoblastic and/or T-cell leukemia. FAU - Cerezo, L AU - Cerezo L FAU - Head, D R AU - Head DR FAU - Pullen, J AU - Pullen J FAU - Humphrey, B AU - Humphrey B LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - England TA - Am J Clin Pathol JT - American journal of clinical pathology JID - 0370470 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Adult MH - Child MH - Humans MH - Leukemia, Lymphoid/*blood/pathology MH - Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/*blood/pathology MH - Neoplastic Stem Cells/cytology MH - Retrospective Studies EDAT- 1984/03/01 00:00 MHDA- 1984/03/01 00:01 CRDT- 1984/03/01 00:00 PHST- 1984/03/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1984/03/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1984/03/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1093/ajcp/81.3.355 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Am J Clin Pathol. 1984 Mar;81(3):355-7. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/81.3.355.