purpose: to report a case of acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) presenting with periorbital cellulitis and progressing to facial and neck cellulitis. case report: a 17 year old male patient presented with periorbital cellulitis which progressed to the right hemifacial and neck area. he did not respond to regular antibiotic therapy. peripheral blood smear showed leukocytosis with predominance of i...

1. dept. of hematology, oncology, kermanshah university of medical sciences, kermanshah, iran 2. medical biology research center, kermanshah university of medical sciences, kermanshah, iran 3. students research committee, kermanshah university of medical sciences, kermanshah, iran     corresponding author: masoud sadeghi, msc; degree in biochemistry tel: (+91) 8338428221 email: sadeghi_mbrc@yah...

previous studies have demonstrated some significant differences in hla allele frequencies in leukemic patients and normal subjects. we have analyzed hla class ii alleles and haplotypes in 60 iranian patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) and 180 unrelated normal subjects. blood samples were collected after obtaining informed consents. from the patients and control dna extraction and hla...

a retrospective study was done on 130 aml patients treated in shariati and imam hospitals in tehran from 1991 to 1997 to investigate the value of three post-remission methods of treatment. all patients who were in complete remission (cr) (group i) had been treated with ara-c (300 mg/m2/day continuous infusion for 5 days) and daunorubicine (45 mg/m2/day for 3 days) as induction and early consoli...

homogeneously staining regions (hsr) or double minute chromosomes (dmin) are autonomously replicating extra-chromosomal elements that are frequently associated with gene amplifi cation in a variety of cancers. the diagnosis of leukemia patients was based on characterization of the leukemic cells obtained from bone marrow cytogenetics. this study report two cases, one with acute myeloblastic leu...

introduction: the traditional goal of the treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia is to produce and maintain a complete remission (cr).the difference in survival time was entirely attributable to the duration of time spent in cr .in this study, the outcome of aml patients with allogeneic hsct in cr1 versus other than cr1 was compared. patients and methods: since march 1991 until november 2008, ...

Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is a hematological malignancy, which accounts for about 15-25% of childhood's leukemia. Genetic factor is one of the most important predisposing elements in childhood acute leukemia, especially AML. In this case report, a rare presentation of familial AML is presented in three monozygotic triplets. Two were 10 months old, and the other one was 16 months old at p...

Two IgM monoclonal antibodies (MAb) with strong reactivity for granulocytes and to a lesser extent for lurkat cell lines were established by immunizing BALBI c mice with a histiocytic cell line (UY37). These two MAbs (designated as 6C9 and 4C4) reacted with blast cells of T-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) patients as well as leukemic cells from pat...

Replication of a strain of fowl plague virus adapted to human myeloblasts was studied in leukemia cell cultures derived from the venous blood of 20 adult patients suffering from acute leukemia (15 acute myelogenous, 4 acute lymphatic, and 1 chronic myelogenous leukemia in acute blastic crisis). Virus multiplication was observed in the cultures of 18 patients. Sufficient adaptation of the virus ...

Frequencies of 35 HLA A, B, C, and DR antigens were determined in 1,834 leukemic Caucasoids to evaluate possible associations between HLA and leukemia. In comparison with the frequencies of HLA antigens in published controls, the frequency of Cw3 was significantly higher in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (relative risk = 2.64, P less than 0.0002), acute myelogenous leukemia (relativ...