Specific cutaneous involvement in a child with monoblastic leukemia

Siham Cherkaoui, Said Benchekroun

PAMJ. 2014; 17:307. Published 22 Apr 2014 | doi:10.11604/pamj.2014.17.307.2726

A 13-year-old boy, admitted with hemorrhagic syndrome and fever. Physical exam showed dermo-hypodermic nodular lesion on the whole body (figure 1), facial edema (figure 2), splenomegaly at 2 cm and angulo mandibular lymph node of 2cm. Count blood cells found white blood cell at 1360/mm3 with 94% of blasts, anemia at 8.3 g/dl and thrombocytopenia at 38000/mm3. Morphological examination of bone marrow confirmed diagnosis of acute monoblastic leukemia. Flow cytometry showed positivity of CD11c, CD13, CD33, CD34, HLA-DR. karyotype was normal. Child received chemotherapy.
Corresponding author
Siham Cherkaoui, Department of Hematology and Pediatric Oncology, hospital 20 Août1953, Ibn Rochd University hospital, Casablanca, Morocco (sihamc@gmail.com)


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