Acute erythroid leukemia (or "acute Di Guglielmo syndrome") is a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia where the myeloproliferation is of erythroblastic precursors.
It is defined at type "M6" under the FAB classification.[1]
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Acute erythroid leukemia
This is a strain of Acute myelogenous leukemia, classified on an “M6' scale. Patients diagnosed with this type of leukemia typically receive a poor prognosis.
T-cell acute lymphoblastomic leukemia
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Acute erythroid leukemias (FAB classifications M6a and M6b)
The two subtypes of the acute erythroid leukemias, erythroleukemia and pure erythroid leukemia, are characterized by a predominant erythroid population and, ...
Acute erythroid leukemia (erythroid/myeloid and pure erythroleukemia) (previously called M6)
Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (previously called M7)
Acute basophilic leukemia ...
M6: acute erythroid leukemia (AEL).
M7: acute megakaryocytic leukemia (AMKL). Diagnosis of M7 can be difficult without the use of flow cytometry as the blasts can be morphologically confused with lymphoblasts.
 See also: Leukemia, Cancer, Acute lymphoblastic, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Acute myelogenous leukemia
  
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