faggot cell faggot cell faggot cells are cells normally found in the hypergranular form of acute promyelocytic leukemia (fab - m3). these promyelocytes (not blast cells) have numerous auer rods in the cytoplasm which gives the appearance of a bundle of sticks, from which the cells are given their name. a faggot cell (bottom left of the central cell cluster) with a prominent collection of auer rods from a patient with acute promyelocytic leukemia.