CD2 and acute myeloid leukemia: In the context of CMML and pre-CMML conditions, apart from a first evaluation of the BM blast percentage, aiming to exclude AML, and the evaluation of monocyte subsets, as was described earlier, neoplastic monocytes exhibit frequently an aberrant expression of CD56, CD2, CD5, CD10, CD23 or under-express CD13, CD14, CD15, CD33, CD38, CD45, and CD64 (133).