Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Department of Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Abstract:
S ummary . The case history of an adult patient with acute myelomonoblastic leukaemia is presented. The leukaemia developed 4 yr after the first irradiation for a Wilms' tumour. Approximately 35% of the bone marrow cells had 47 chromosomes and were trisomic for chromosome 9.