A report of oral extramedullary acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in an 8-year-old girl with newly diagnosed AML-M4Eo.
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.
Anagnostopoulos
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Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, School of Dentistry, University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), South Africa.
Jadwat
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Wood
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Meyerov
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Lemmer
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Bouckaert
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Feller
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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