Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most frequent childhood cancer. During the last 50 years its prognosis has improved from zero probability of survival in the 1950s to more than 80% chance to be cured at the beginning of the 21st century. ALL is a highly chemosensitive disease and its successful treatment is a good indicator of the level of medical care that children with cancer get in...

background & objectives:  cd10 is a cell surface enzyme with metalloendopeptidase activity, also known as common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia antigen, which mainly serves as a marker for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all). to date and to the best of our knowledge, only few comparative immunohistochemical studies have assessed cd10 expression in cutaneous epithelial neoplasms. our goal was ...

Secondary involvement of female genitourinary system [1, 2] is more common in lymphoma than leukaemia [3, 4]. In leukaemia, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is known to have extra medullary involvement (chloroma, granulocytic sarcoma, etc.) [5, 6]. In case of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), except for CNS and testis other extra medullary sites are rarely involved [7, 8]. Amongst genitourinary...

A boy with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia developed mycotic cerebral abscesses despite treatment with amphotericin. He survived this episode on combination antifungal treatment.