Cardiac Myeloid Sarcoma

Myeloid Sarcoma

Temporal bone myeloid sarcoma.

A 69-year-old male previously diagnosed with acute myeloblastic leukemia secondary to myelodysplastic syndrome (LMA with dysplasia, karyotype 46XY, and no cytogenetics abnormalities) refractory to treatment (hydroxyurea, cytarabine, mitoxantrone, and azacitidine) presented with right-side otalgia, otorrhea, and deafness with 2 months progression. He had been treated with oral ciprofloxacin, ear...

Temporal Bone Myeloid Sarcoma

Myeloid sarcoma is a rare condition that's caused by the aggregation of immature myeloid cells in leukemic patients. Myeloid sarcoma occurring in the temporal bone more frequently involves the mastoid bone than is the case for metastatic lesions arising from non-systemic malignancies. The disease is difficult to diagnose when it presents with symptoms that mimic otomastoiditis. However, an earl...

Donor Cell Myeloid Sarcoma

Donor cell derived malignancies are a rare and interesting complication of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. We present a case of a 56-year-old male with donor cell myeloid sarcoma of the stomach and myocardium.

Myeloid sarcoma: extramedullary manifestation of myeloid disorders.

Myeloid sarcoma (MS), also termed extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia, extramedullary myeloid tumor, and granulocytic sarcoma or chloroma, is a rare manifestation that is characterized by the occurrence of 1 or more tumor myeloid masses occurring at an extramedullary site. The wide spectrum of this disorder and the conditions that it overlaps diagnostically were well reflected in the 25 cases...