Published online 16 June 2009
Haematologica, Vol 94, Issue 7, 994-997 doi:10.3324/haematol.2008.005421
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Blood Cell Morphology

Morphological evaluation of monocytes and their precursors

Jean E. Goasguen1, John M. Bennett2, Barbara J. Bain3, Teresa Vallespi4, Richard Brunning5, Ghulam J. Mufti6 for the International Working Group on Morphology of Myelodysplastic Syndrome (IWGM-MDS)

1 University of Rennes, Rennes, France;
2 James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, Rochester, New York, USA;
3 St Mary’s Hospital Campus of Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, UK;
4 Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain;
5 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and
6 King’s College London, UK

Correspondence: Jean E. Goasguen MD, PhD, Campus Santé, Faculté de Médecine, Hématologie, 2 avenue du Pr Léon Bernard, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France. E-mail:jean.goasguen{at}univ-rennes1.fr

The monocyte is still the most difficult cell to identify with confidence in the peripheral blood or in the bone marrow in healthy individuals as well as in patients with infections, and in those with leukemic proliferations. The goal of this study was to establish morphological definitions so that monocytes, including immature monocytes, could be separated from the spectrum of monocyte precursors. Cells from peripheral blood or bone marrow were selected to provide a large panel of normal and leukemic cells at different maturational stages and were submitted to 5 experts, who had previously reached a consensus, on the basis of microscopy, in defining 4 subtypes: monoblast, promonocyte, immature monocyte, mature, monocyte. They achieved a good concordance rate of 76.6% and a high {kappa} rate confirming that the criteria for defining the 4 subtypes could be applied consistently. It has now to be established whether these monocyte subtypes correlate with immunological or molecular markers and are clinically relevant.

Key words: monocytes, monoblasts promonocytes immature monocytes, acute myelomonocytic leukemia, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.




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