Clinicopathological Study of Leukaemia in Gauhati Medical College & Hospital , Assam , India : A One Year Retrospective Study (original) (raw)

Introduction: Leukemias are neoplastic proliferations of haematopoietic stem cells and form a major proportion of haematopoietic neoplasms that are diagnosed worldwide. Typing of leukemia is essential for effective therapy because prognosis and survival rate are different for each type and sub-type Aims: To carry out the incidence of acute and chronic leukemias presenting in various departments of GMCH, Guwahati, Assam. Methods: It was a retrospective study of 182 patients carried out in the department of Pathology over a period of one year between February 2017 and January 2018. Diagnosis was based on peripheral blood count, peripheral blood smear and bone marrow examination (as on when availablemarrow sample) for morphology along with cytochemical study whenever possible. Results: In the present study, commonest leukemia was Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) followed by Acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL). Out of total 182 c...