5q syndrome - is a unique paradigm of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) characterized by the correlation between cytology and cytogenetics and the low risk of clinical progression. It is a category apart in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) because of hematological peculiarities, the pathophysiology that remains unknown, and the refractoriness of the anemia with which it is associated. It is a pathology that affects the female sex with predilection. The prognosis of the disease remains good and the risk of malignant transformation into acute leukemia does not exceed 15%. In this work, we report a typical case of SMD with deletion of the long arm of chromosome 5 in order to describe the observation of this particular entity diagnosed in our formation, rare in our Moroccan context and that we must know how to evoke in front of a refractory anemia most often isolated.

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Corresponding author
Reda Badaoui, Service de Traumatologie Orthopédie II, Hôpital Militaire Mohammed V, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie de Rabat, Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Maroc (joudbadaoui17@gmail.com)