Acute promyelocytic leukemia (blood). Typical morphologic features are bilobed ("butterfly") nuclei with dispersed chromatin, subtle to overt cytoplasmic granules, and Auer rods. I see all of these features in most cases, even the microgranular variant.


 - Kyle Bradley, MD

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