[Non-sarcomatous bilateral exophthalmos disclosing acute myeloblastic leukemia in children].
The authors report a bilateral exophthalmos due to a leukemic infiltration of the orbital lacrimal glands during an acute myeloblastic leukemia in a ten-year-old boy. This rare orbital localization revealed the leukemia. It was not a granulocytic sarcoma. Its importance leads to the extraction of the lacrimal glands in order to prevent the eyes from corneal perforation.
Lam
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Service d'Ophtalmologie, Hôpital Principal de Dakar, Sénégal.
Faye
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Seck
C M
CM
Ka
A S
AS
Sissoko
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B
D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007766:Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male
Exophtalmie bilatérale non sarcomateuse révélant une leucémie aiguë myéloblastique de l'enfant.