title: Isolated lytic bone lesion as extramedullary disease in chronic myelogenous leukemia: a report of three new cases.
abstract: This short report describes three patients with chronic myeloid leukemia and isolated extramedullary bone disease with isolated lytic bone lesions. All these patients were in chronic phase when skeletal blast crisis took place. All the patients developed a full-blown blastic crisis within 3 months, with a rapidly fatal outcome, despite several intensive therapies.
authors.affiliation: Département d'Hématologie-Oncologie, Hôpital Civil, 1 porte de l'hôpital, 67091 Strasbourg Cedex, France. Frederic.Maloisel@chru-strasbourg.fr
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Maloisel
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Favre
authors.forename: Lahaucine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mahmal
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zamfir
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Andrès