 ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA
 DR SHRUTHI PURUSHOTHAM
 DR NIXON

A group of malignant disease in
which genetic abnormalities in
hematopoietic cells give rise to
unregulated clonal Proliferation of
leukocytes with failure of maturation

 Nucleus occupies 4/5 of the cell
 Presence of nucleoli
 Fine chromatin

 Auer rod in Myeloblast
 More cytoplasm in Myeloblast
 Fine chromatin in myeloblast
 coarser chromatin lymphoblast
 Nucleoli more in myeloblast[3-4]