The patient is a 7 year old male who has an abdominal mass. The mass involves...

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The patient is a 7 year old male who has an abdominalmass. The mass involves his small bowel, and biopsy reveals a highgrade tumor with starry sky pattern, small cells with high mitoticcount and high apoptotic rate. Flow cytometry shows a population ofcells expressing CD19, CD20 and CD10. FISH is positive fort(8;14).

What is the name of the abnormal gene?

The peripheral blood has large blasts with basophilic vacuolatedcytoplasm and irregular nuclei. The blasts have the sameimmunophenoptype as the small bowel tumor. What is yourdiagnosis?

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