Clinical and pathological features of myeloid leukemia cutis

Neonatal leukemia cutis presenting with dysmorphic features and cutis laxa

Congenital leukemia is a rare disease with particular biological and clinical characteristics, which differs from those of older children. Its prognosis is generally poor. Its clinical manifestation may vary (hyperleukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, organomegaly) and some patients can develop cutaneous infiltration by leukemic cells (leukemia cutis). We describe a dysmorphic patient with thrombocyt...

Clinical and Pathological Features of Iraqi Patients with Prostate Cancer

Background: The clinical pathological features were detected by measuring the prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) activity according to the stages and grades of prostate cancer. We also explored the relationship between the disease and age with family history among the patients. Methods: Data were collected from direct interview and from the patient’s records. Blood samples that collected before ...

NPM1 mutation is associated with leukemia cutis in acute myeloid leukemia with monocytic features.

Leukemia cutis from CD56 positive, myeloperoxidase negative acute myeloid leukemia.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a clonal expansion of myeloid blasts in peripheral blood, bone marrow, or other tissues. Cutaneous manifestations of leukemia are either specific or nonspecific. Specific lesions result from direct infiltration of the skin by leukemic cells. We present a case of myeloid leukemia cutis manifested by erythematous asymptomatic nodules and plaques distributed on the ...

Cytophagic and S-100 protein immunoreactive myeloid leukemia cutis.

Myeloid leukemia cutis (LC) is the cutaneous involvement by neoplastic leukocytes of the myeloid series. Myeloid LC may occur de novo or concurrently with acute myeloid leukemias, chronic myeloid leukemias, other myeloproliferative disorders or myelodysplastic syndromes. We describe an unusual case of cytophagic S-100 protein immunoreactive leukemia cutis presenting in an 87-year-old woman with...