Auer rods in a patient with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia

A 69-year-old man presented with anemia (hemoglobin, 77 g/L), thrombocytopenia (platelets, 84 × 109/L), and leukocytosis (white blood cell count, 31 × 109/L) including monocytosis (2.61 × 109/L). Blood film showed a leukoerythroblastic picture with nucleated red cells and blasts. Neutrophils had dysplastic features such as hyposegmented and hypersegmented nuclei, rare circular nuclei, and hypogranulation. Blasts, including myeloblasts, monoblasts, and promonocytes, comprised 8% of leukocytes. Some blasts contained Auer rods

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Auer rods in a patient with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia type 2

Source: Blood Journal