Congenital Acute Leukemia: A Rare Hematological Malignancy

Angiotropic lymphoma: a rare hematological malignancy.

Correspondence: Ass. Professor Paraskevi Roussou, 3rd University Department of Medicine, “Sotiria” Hospital, 152 Mesogion Avenue, Athens GR-11527, Greece. Fax: international +301-7719981. A56-year-old woman was referred to us complaining of painful subcutaneous nodules in the lower extremities during the last three months. The nodules appeared a year ago. The physical examination disclosed palp...

Congenital Leukemia: A Case Report

Clinico Hematological Profile of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

Background: Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a unique subtype of acute leukemia’s. It has distinct Cytogenetics, clinical features, and biologic characteristics. Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is caused by an arrest of leukocyte differentiation at the promyelocytic stage. The discovery and elucidation of the molecular pathogenesis for APL has led to first and only targeted therapy for ...

Spontaneous hematological remission of acute myeloid leukemia

Spontaneous remission (SR) of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in adults is observed very rarely. To date, about 100 cases have been presented in the literature. To our best knowledge, we describe the first adult Polish patient suffering from acute myelomonocytic leukemia (48, XY, +13, +21/46, XY), in whom after supportive therapy, including non-irradiated, non-leukocyte depleted red cell transfusi...

Central Hypothyroidism: A Rare Complication in a Child Undergoing Chemotherapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Abnormalities of the thyroid gland are among the most frequent endocrine complications observed in childhood cancer survivors. We report an 11 years old girl who developed central hypothyroidism and ACTH deficiency during the chemotherapy for CNS relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia before receiving radiotherapy. Keywords: Thyroid gland, hypothyroidism, chemotherapy, acute lymphoblastic leu...