[The Synopsis of Clinical Cytometry: Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia.]

The acute megakaryoblastic leukemia is a rather rare form of pathology even in practice of specialized oncological hematological departments. The data of cytometry analysis of 2363 patients monitored from 2007 to 2014 carried out in The Dmitrii Rogachev Federal research clinical center of children hematology, oncology and immunology and The academician I.P. Pavlov First St. Petersburg state medical university was used to diagnose acute megakaryoblastic leukemia. The corresponding diagnosis was established in 24 patients of various age categories, including 16 children (11 boys and 5 girls) and 8 adults (ratio male/female 1:1). The trisomy on chromosome 21 was revealed only in 4 children out of 13 of early age (younger than 3 years). The article describes characteristics of samples taking preparation and interpretation of data of multicolor with regard to experience of national and foreign colleges.