Bone marrow smear from a 23-year-old female with acute myeloid leukemia with maturation (FAB-M2) associated with a t(8;21) chromosomal aabnormality. The myeloblasts have abundant cytoplasm and cytoplasmic vacuoles (black arrows). One myeloblast contains a prominent Auer rod (red arrow). (Wright-Giemsa stain).
From Brunning, RD, McKenna, RW. Tumors of the bone marrow. Atlas of tumor pathology (electronic fascicle), Third series, fascicle 9, 1994, Washington, DC. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
