Haematology

• The key differentiating features to remember for exams are:

  • ALL is the most common leukaemia in children and is associated with Down syndrome
  • CLL is associated with warm haemolytic anaemia, Richter’s transformation and smudge cells
  • CML has three phases, including a long chronic phase, and is associated with the Philadelphia chromosome
  • AML may result in a transformation from a myeloproliferative disorder and is associated with Auer rods