Apart from a well-known FC pattern of hypergranular APL, we presented less common immunophenotypic variants of APL, which helps to identify an additional group of patients who would benefit from fast confirmatory FISH and/or PCR testing for t(15;17)/PML-RARA..     ///    " A total of 97 acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) patients with adequate flow cytometry (FC) data, bone marrow aspirates and presence of t(15;17)/PML-RARA by cytogenetics and/or FISH studies were analyzed for immunophenotypic pattern. "