Spinal granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) presenting as acute cord compression in a nonleukemic patient

Spinal granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) presenting as acute cord compression in a nonleukemic patient.

The case of a previously healthy 24-year-old man diagnosed with extradural thoracic granulocytic sarcoma with no evidence of bone marrow or other hematological involvement is described. The tumor was removed totally by microsurgery. The histopathological examination was consistent with granulocytic sarcoma. Granulocytic sarcomas are most commonly found in the context of an acute myelogenous leu...

Intracranial granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) in a nonleukemic patient.

Chloroma is a granulocytic sarcoma with it's characteristic greenish color. Recently there is an increased number of cases that are apparently aleukemic when the tumor mass is first presented. Recently we experienced a case of granulocytic sarcoma with characteristic green color (chloroma), which showed no evidence of leukemia in the bone marrow and peripheral blood. This patient presented head...

Acute Myeloid Leukemia Presenting as Granulocytic Sarcoma (Chloroma) of the Tongue: A Case Report

Granulocytic Sarcoma Presenting as Subconjunctival Mass

  Chloroma or granulocytic sarcoma (GS) is a malignant neoplasm of myeloid lineage that occur in a variety of anatomic sites other than the bone marrow including soft tissue, bone, lymph node, nasal fossa, skin and sometime in the orbit. In the subconjunctiva it is rarely reported. A 4-year-old girl with a history of treated acute myelogenous leukemia was referred to Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehra...

granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) presenting as multiple sites in oral cavity: report of a case

granulocytic sarcoma (gs) is an unusual extramedullary tumor composed of immature granulocytic precursor cells. the intraoral occurrence of this tumor is extremely rare. here we report a case of gs with palatal swelling, gingival lesions in maxilla and mandible and aleukemic presentation in a 45 years old man.