re:
> A glycogen storage disease is suspected in a 4-year-old girl. Our
> clinicians asked us to check blood films for vacuolated lymphocytes.
> Can anyone comment on the usefulness of this approach? I have never
> heard about such phenomenon in these diseases.
Vacuolated lymphocytes can be seen in peripheral blood of patients with
Niemann-Pick disease and Tay-Sachs storage disorders (as well as in cells in the
marrow).
Dan Hoefner
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