title: A report of oral extramedullary acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in an 8-year-old girl with newly diagnosed AML-M4Eo.
abstract: Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), characterized by proliferation of immature neoplastic myeloid cells, is uncommon in childhood. We present a case of an 8-year-old girl with AML-M4Eo who had an extramedullary leukaemic tumour in the oral cavity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, School of Dentistry, University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), South Africa.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Anagnostopoulos
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jadwat
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meyerov
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lemmer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bouckaert
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Feller
mesh_terms: D019046:Bone Marrow Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016130:Immunophenotyping / Q000379:methods; D015479:Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000188:drug therapy