The karyotypic picture of a female patient with acute myelomonocytic leukemia (A.M.M.L.) consisted in the loss of a sex chromosome and a ring chromosome 21. It is suggested that in A.M.M.L. the loss of sex chromosome may represent an early event, the monosomic cells being the object of further chromosome rearrangements, which involve more frequently a chromosome 21.

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