Acute Myeloid Leukemia in a Geriatric Patient with a History of Minimal Change Disease

Occurrence of Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia in a Patient with Breast Cancer after Chemotherapy

Unsuspected early necrotizing fasciitis identified by 18F-FDG PET imaging in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia

Necrotizing fasciitis is a part of a spectrum of necrotizing soft tissue infections that usually follow a surgical intervention or a chronic / acute medical illness. Diagnosis is often based on symptoms which classically start within hours after an injury. There are no reports on the use of PET/CT in this condition. Sparing reports of its association in patients with malignancy (Ca of colon and...

Successful Treatment of Bilateral Pulmonary Hydatic Cysts in a Child with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Few data are available about hydatid cysts in patients with malignancy; however, these have rarely been described in association with leukemia. The purpose of this report was to present an unusual case of coexisting leukemia and pulmonary hydatid cysts.This study presented a 13-year-old boy with acute myeloid leukemia who was diagnosed with bilateral pulmonary hydatid cysts after the completion...

evaluation of minimal residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia with npm1 marker

background: minimal residual disease (mrd) tests provide early identification of hematologic relapse and timely management of acute myeloid leukemia (aml) patients. approximately, 50% of aml patients do not have clonal chromosomal aberrations and categorize as a cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia (cn-aml). about 60% of adult cn-aml has a mutation in exon 12 of npm1 gene. this mutatio...

Chloroma of the testis in a patient with a history of acute myeloid leukemia

Chloroma, or granulocytic sarcoma, is a rare extramedullary solid hematologic cancer, found concomitant with acute myeloid leukemia. It is infrequently associated with other myeloproliferative disorders or chronic myelogenous leukemia. Chloroma of the testis after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation is particularly sparsely represented in the literature. It is suggested that an appropriate p...