Acute leukaemia and Gaucher's disease.
As association between Gaucher's disease and haematopoietic neoplasias has been reported in only a few instances. The authors recently encountered 2 cases of adult Gaucher's disease that developed acute myelogenous/myelomonocytic leukaemia. Both individuals had a pre-leukaemic phase. These cases are reported.
D000368:Aged; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D005776:Gaucher Disease / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013154:Spleen / Q000473:pathology