Acute leukemia which is the most common cancer in children is a heterogeneous group of clonal malignancies. The conversion of the leukemic cell lineage during the course of the disease or later is termed lineage switch. It has been rarely reported in the literature. In leukemia lineage switch, conversions from lymphoblastic leukemia to myeloid leukemia or vice versa are reported. Herein, we rep...

Introduction and aims: Leukemia is a heterogeneous group of hematological disorders that made up several diverse biologically distinct subgroups. the eleventh tenth most common cause cancer morbidity mortality worldwide, respectively. There are insufficient data on parameters counts leukemia in Yemen. This cross-sectional study aims to determine for children with leukemia.

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...

fuzzy expert systems are one of the most practical intelligent models with the high potential for managing uncertainty associated to the medical diagnosis. in this paper, a fuzzy inference system (fis) for diagnosing of acute lymphocytic leukemia in children has been introduced. the fuzzy expert system applies mamdani reasoning model that has high interpretability to explain system results to e...

chronic lymphocytic leukemia (cll) and chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) are the most common leukemias of the elderly (>43 year). however, the sequential occurrence of cml followed by cll in the same patient is extremely rare. in our report, a 52-year-old female was diagnosed with cll (type of bone marrow (bm) infiltration was nodular and interstitial) and was treated with chlorambucil. 64 months ...

conclusions this study showed that some lifestyle factors, particularly exposure to radiation, chemicals, pesticides, and contact with pets or livestock, can play an important role in etiology of leukemia. results exposure to radiation (p = 0.0001), chemicals (p = 0.02), pesticides (p = 0.01), and contact with pets or livestock (p = 0.0001) were associated with the risk of leukemia, but a histo...

Chronic myeloid leukemia is a ph-positive myeloproliferative disease, which usually manifested by hyperleukocytosis and massive splenomegaly. rare in childhood adolescence, it accounts for 2 to 3 % of all leukemias cases. priapism manifestation chronic an urgent urological condition that requires timely treatment prevent long-term complications, particular, erectile dysfunction.This review pres...

Idelalisib is a novel treatment option for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. A rare, but, fatal complication of using Idelalsib drug induced pneumonitis. This article presents case pneumonitis in patient leukemia along brief discussion management plan.

background: about 8 percent of all cancers in human population are related to leukemia and it is one of the most common malignancies in children. the aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of age, gender and blood group types with the frequency of leukemia among the children with leukemia in qazvin province during the 2006 to 2016. m aterials and methods: this was a cross-sectional ana...