Spinal nerve root or cauda equina compression in patients with leukemia is often secondary to extradural chloroma [1]. We present the CT myelographic findings of an intradural mass and lumbar nerve root enlargement secondary to leukemic infiltration of the lumbar subarachnoid space and nerve roots. This form of leukemic involvement of the nervous system has not previously been demonstrated with...

We are reporting a case of a young woman with acute myelogenous leukemia status postallogeneic transplantation who developed multiply recurrent chloromas occurring along peripheral nerves in the absence of bone marrow relapse, all treated with radiation therapy. The patient is currently free of disease nearly four years after her first posttransplant chloroma. The case presented is unique for i...

Granulocytic sarcoma is a rare solid tumor of immature granulocytes. It represents tumorous manifestation of granulocytic leukemia that may occur in the brain, paranasal sinuses, skeleton, chest, or abdomen [1, 2]. The term granulocytic sarcoma is used in preference to chloroma, because it refers to the cell origin of the tumor and not to its color, which fades away as the pigment myeloperoxida...

Granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) is a rare solid, extramedullary tumour composed of immature granulocytes, occurring during granulocytic leukemia. Leukemic involvement of the temporal bone is not uncommon and may present in a variety of ways. Symptomatic facial nerve paralysis is one of these. The authors report a case of facial nerve paralysis as the presenting symptom of leukemic relapse in a ...