title: Syndrome of secondary polymyositis with leukemia.
abstract: A boy with neurofibromatosis suffered mumps at the age of 5. A full-blown juvenile polymyositis developed shortly afterwards. First hematological consultation was done for monocytosis in peripheral blood at the age of 7. He suffered varicella at the age of 8. Diagnosis of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia with monosomy 7 was done before the age of 9. The boy died at the age of 10.
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department of Paediatrics, Charles Univ., Prague, Czechoslovakia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Starý
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Havelka
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hrodek
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vavrincová
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Havlová
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D002897:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; D008297:Male; D009006:Monosomy; D017285:Polymyositis; D011289:Preleukemia; D013577:Syndrome