Osteolytic tumors in acute megakaryoblastic leukemia
β Scribed by Finella Dharmasena; Nick Wickham; Patrick J. McHugh; Daniel Catovsky Mrcpath; David A. G. Galton
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 508 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
CUTE MEGAKARYOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (AMkL) i S a
A rare form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) (French-American-British [FAB] classification, M7).' It usually presents with features related to pancytopenia.2 We report a patient with AMkL who presented with painful soft tissue swellings associated with areas of increased uptake on bone scan and bone destruction due to leukemic infiltration.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Routine morphologic and cytochemical study of the leukemic cells of a 13-month-old child did not permit definitive determination of either a lymphoid or a myeloid cell origin. However, ultrastructural cytochemical analysis revealed platelet peroxidase (PPO) reactivity. The malignant cells expressed
City (T.T., Y.T., M.K.), Japan Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMkL) is a newly defined acute leukemia in which the differentiation of proliferating blasts is arrested at the megakaryocytic precursor stage. In order to clarify whether a target cell of leukemic transformation in AMkL is a cell commi
Acute leukemia in infancy is rare and characterized by a poor outcome [1]. The organomegaly associated with AML 7, in this case of the kidneys, initially misled us towards the diagnosis of a kidney malformation. A 5 week-old girl was admitted to our department of Onco-Hematology in poor health with