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ReviewCancers2025

Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage: Diagnosis and Evaluation by Flow Cytometry.

Franklin Fuda, Weina Chen

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Review in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Franklin FudaDepartment of Pathology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
Weina ChenDepartment of Pathology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5638-4371

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage (ALAL) includes mixed-phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL), which exhibits immunophenotypic evidence of differentiation along more than one cell lineage, and acute undifferentiated leukemia (AUL), which lacks sufficient immunophenotypic differentiation along any cell lineage. This review provides an overview of ALAL, emphasizing the central role of flow cytometric analysis in its diagnostic workflow. It primarily focuses on MPAL, addressing updated classification and diagnostic criteria by the WHO-HEM5 and the ICC, including both genetically defined and phenotypically defined MPAL. The article provides a detailed review of the MPAL lineage assignment criteria with an illustrative description of a series of MPAL cases. Future studies are needed to reconcile the different criteria used in these two classifications. Continuously expanded molecular studies are expected to provide a genomic and lineage-associated framework for the classification of ALAL with clinical relevance in the diagnosis and therapy selection.

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acute leukemia of ambiguous lineageAULdiagnosisgeneticsimmunophenotypelineagemixed-phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL)

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PMID40075717
PMCPMC11898493

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