Acute eosinophilic leukemia

Acute eosinophilic leukemia (AEL) is a rare subtype of acute myeloid leukemia with 50 to 80 percent of eosinophilic cells in the blood and marrow.

This section focuses on chronic eosinophilic leukemia. Acute eosinophilic leukemia is rare and is treated similarly to acute myeloid leukemia (AML); read the Cancer.Net Guide: Acute Myeloid Leukemia for more information.
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Other extremely rare subtypes of AML include acute eosinophilic leukemia and acute basophilic leukemia.

The following list shows these subtypes. Acute basophilic leukemia
Acute eosinophilic leukemia
Mast cell leukemia
Acute myeloid dendritic cell leukemia
Acute panmyelosis with myelofibrosis
Myeloid sarcoma.

The differential diagnosis includes: blast crisis of CML, other AML subtypes with basophilia such as AML with maturation (M2) associated with abnormalities of 12p or t(6;9), acute eosinophilic leukemia, and, rarely, ...

See also: Leukemia, Acute myeloid leukemia, Sarcoma, Cancer, Cml