[Bilateral facial palsy and acute myeloid leukemia: an unusual association].
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a malignant disease of the hematopoietic tissue.  The disease presentation may be related to the loss of bone marrow function or  with general symptoms of neoplastic diseases. Extramedullary involvement is responsible  for less frequent presentations that may hinder early diagnosis. Gingival enlargement  is not uncommon in AML but cases of bilateral facial palsy are rare. In this article  the authors present the case of a man of 70 who comes up with gingival hypertrophy  that initially was not valued and that developed after three weeks, a bilateral  facial palsy. The myelogram revealed an AML. With directed chemotherapy the patient  reached complete remission but kept the symptoms of disease presentation.
Serviço de Medicina I, Sector C, Hospital de Santa Maria (CHLN), Lisboa, Portugal.
Marta Sofia
MS
Pereira
Frederica
F
Faria
Luiz
L
Menezes Falcão
D000368:Aged; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male