Immunophenotyping of Acute Leukemia in Pediatric Patients: Tertiary Care Centre Experience from Lahore (original) (raw)

Acute Leukemia is the most prevalent malignancy of childhood, globally. Immunophenotyping by flowcytometry has developed as an important technique for its outstanding contributions in diagnosis and management of leukemia patients. Objective: To determine the frequency and immunophenotyping by flowcytometry of Acute leukemia in pediatric age group. Methods: The study was conducted at The University of Child health sciences and Children’s Hospital, Lahore from July-2021 to Feb-2022. Data were gathered from 101 consecutive patients, of age from 0.5 to 15 years, that had acute leukemia immunophenotyping using flowcytometry. Results: Flowcytometric immunophenotyping of 101 leukemia patients over 8-month period showed that 67.3% and 33.6% male were females respectively. AML, T-ALL, and B-ALL prevalence was highest in patients with 5 to 10 years of age. Out of 101 leukemia patients, 16 (15.8%) and 85 (84.1%) had AML and ALL diagnosis respectively. Of these 85 ALL cases, 72 (84.7%) were B-A...