Chromosome Studies During Early and Terminal Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia

Abstract

The patient was a man aged 39 in 1959. Polycythaemia rubra vera was first diagnosed in March 1959, when albuminuria, noted when he was undergoing treatment for chronic eczema, was being investigated. The findings at this time were: haemoglobin (Hb) 19.4 g./100 ml.; packed-cell volume (P.C.V.) 59%; white-cell count (W.B.C.) 25,200/c.mm. ( neutrophils 68%, lymphocytes 25%, monocytes 7%); platelets 486,000/c.mm.