Deposition of autofluorescent eosinophil granules in pathologic bone marrow biopsies.
Eosinophil granules are intensely autofluorescent when excited by green light. To determine if eosinophils degranulate in the bone marrows of patients with a variety of diseases, we used green light epifluorescence microscopy to examine deparaffinized and dezenkerized sections of 49 bone marrow core biopsies. In 14 of the biopsies, there was striking extracellular deposition of intensely autofluorescent eosinophil granules in addition to numerous intact eosinophils. Among the 14 specimens with extracellular autofluorescence were seven cases of leukemia, four cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, two cases of myelofibrosis, and one case of pancytopenia with eosinophilia. In the remaining 35 specimens, only intact eosinophils were identifiable. There was no extracellular autofluorescence in three normal marrows, four marrows from AIDS patients, or three biopsies from patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). We conclude that green light epifluorescence microscopy identifies extracellular deposits of eosinophil granules in bone marrow biopsies of some neoplastic disorders and in diseases associated with reticulin fibrosis.[1]References
- Deposition of autofluorescent eosinophil granules in pathologic bone marrow biopsies. Samoszuk, M.K., Espinoza, F.P. Blood (1987) [Pubmed]
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