Cytomorphological Analyses of Abnormal Blood Cells of Acute Leukemic Patients

Abstract

The current study was undertaken to measure and compare the size of different atypical cells according to different age groups (like 0–10, 10–20, 20–30, 30–40, 40–50, 50–60 and 60 years and above) between male and female acute leukemic patients. Blood is collected from the bone marrow of 36 acute leukemic patients (19 males, 17 females), smeared, stained with Giemsa’s stain and measured under light microscope. Three types of atypical (abnormal) cells such as tadpole shaped cell, tear drop shaped cell and rod shaped cell were observed in this study. Both male and female acute leukemic patients of different age groups reflected highly significant difference (p < 0.01) regarding cell length and breadth of tadpole and tear drop shaped cell. Significant difference (p < 0.05) was found among the age groups of male acute leukemic patients with respect to cell length and breadth of rod shaped cell. Percentage of abnormal cells found in bone marrow of both male and female acute leukemic patients according to different age groups are enlisted. Significant difference (p < 0.05) is found only in the rod shaped cells of female between 10–20 and 60 and above, 10–20 and 30–40 age groups.