We experienced a case of preleukemia of 8-year-old male child, whose initial diagnosis was aplastic anemia, but 2 months later, acute lymphocytic leukemia was developed. So, we concluded that the initial state presenting as aplastic anemia had been prelekemia. Literatures were briefly reviewed. |
A 8-year old boy with acute lymphocytic leukemia who had shown resistance to repeated combination chemotherapies, was successfully grafted with bone marrow from his HLA- matched sister. He was in the third partial remission at the time of bone marrow transplantation. He was conditioned with cyclophosphamide 60 mg/kg/day on two consecutive days, followed by 800 rads total body irradiation. Marrow... |
Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia in a very rare type of leukemia characterized by megakaryoblatic proliferation and organ infiltration without proliferation of other marrow elements. The authors experienced a case of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia in a 3 9/12 year-old female patient on admission. Acute leukemia was suspected because blast cells were found in peripheral blood smear, and there was hepatosplenomegaly. Bone marrow... |
A 26 days old male with petechiae, ecchymoses and hepatosplenomegaly was admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, at In Cheon Gil Hospital on Jnue, 1983. Peripheral blood smear and bone marrow studies revealed acute lymphocytic leukemia. Autopsy findings revealed that abundant lymphoblastic leukemic cell infiltrated in bone marrow, liver, spleen, kidney and other organs in male newborn infant who died 29 days after birth. And... |
We experienced a case of congenital monocytic leukemia in a 25 day old female newborn infant. She was admitted because of petechiae, abdominal distension and skin nodules scattered on. whole body. Diagnosis was confirmed with findings of CBC, bone marrow aspiration and cytochemistry. A review of literatures was also presented. |
Congenital leukemia is rare disease and several cases were reported in this country. We experienced a case of congenital leukemia(myelomonocytic type) in a 27 days old female. She was admitted due to marked abdominal distension, vomiting and generalized petechia. The diagnosis was established by clinical features as well as peripheral blood and bone marrow studies. We report this case with... |
Twenty four cases of acute lymphocytic leukemia with mediastinal mass were studied at the Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital from September 1965 to August 1983. Analysis were done with regard, to age, sex, chief complaints, organ size (liver, spleen and lymph nodes), initial hemoglobin, white blood cell and platelet count, initial bone marrow findings and lymphoblast surface markers.... |
A Case of acute lymphocytic leukemia with both renal enlargement found l^year old female has been presented. After treatment , acute lymphocytic leukemia with chemotherapeutic agent, the size of both kidneys were decreased and returned to normal shape by ultrasonogram series. A brief review of the literature was made on this subject. |
We have experienced a case of congenital myelogenous leukemia, 5-months old infant, presented with skin nodules without symptoms. The patient was apparently well until 1 month of life when bluish skin nodules was noticed at first on scalp and then on the chest and abdomen. There was no subjected symptoms. No abnormal findings were found on physical examinations except the skin nodules. No abnormal findings... |
The authors experienced two cases of adult type of chronic myelocytic leukemia. We diagnosed it through the evaluation of both clinical and hematologic features, but Philadephia chromosomes were not detected. Patients had been treated with my 1 eran followed by some degree of remission. A brief review of literatures was made. |
We have seen 96patients who were admitted with purpura to the Pediatric Department of Kwangju Christian Hospital during the period of 10 years from Jan., 1971 to Dec., 1980. The following observations were made; 1) Leukemia(26 cases, 27.0%) was the most common underlying disease, followed by allergic purpura (25 cases, 26.0%), idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (22 cases, 22.9%), Aplastic Anemia (13 cases, 13.5%), sepsis (5 cases,... |
Leukemia, the most common malignant disease in pediatric field, is one of the most interesting targets of modern medical research. So we reviewed the bone changes in 51 patients of leukemia admitted to the Dept, of Pediatrics Jeonbug National University Hospital for 5 years from Jan. 1st 1977 to Dec. 31st 1981. The results were as follow. The male patient was... |
The author reviewed the clinical and hematological findings of the 110 children diagnosed as leukemia at pediatric departments, Busan National University and St. Benedict’s Hospital, Busan, during a period of 8 years arid 8 months from January 1973 to August 1981. The results obtained were summarized as follows: 1. Of the 110 chil-dhood leukemias, acute lymphoblastic type was most frequent(60.9%), iollowed by acute myeloblastic... |
A clinical study was made on 47 cases of acute lymphocytic leukemias which ad been treated at pediatric department of Keimyung University Hospital during the period of four and a half years from January 1976 through June 1980. 47 cases of acute lymphocytic leukemia occupied 73.4% of all acute childhood leukemia. Acute lymphocytic leukemia tends to have relatively increasing incidence... |
A clinical study was made on 47 cases of acute lymphocytic leukemias which ad been treated at pediatric department of Keimyung University Hospital during the period of four and a half years from January 1976 through June 1980. 47 cases of acute lymphocytic leukemia occupied 73.4% of all acute childhood leukemia. Acute lymphocytic leukemia tends to have relatively increasing incidence... |
Leukemic infiltration of the testes has been relatively rare disease. But increased survival due to advance in the treatment of childhood leukemia has been associated with an increase in incidence of leukemic infiltration of the tests. Six of 66 male children with acute lymphocytic leukemia and 2 of 2 male children with leukemic transformation on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, who have been... |
Sixty two properly treated acute lymphocytic leukemia cases who were diagnosed at SNUH, from 1958 to July, 1981 were studied. Among them, 20 cases had survived more than 3 years and 42 cases survived less than 3 years. The 11 cases of 20 are now alive and off theray and the remainder 9 cases were expired after survival for more... |
A case of acute lymphocytic leukemia with both renal enlargement found in a 2 3/12-year-old female has been presented. A brief review of the literatures was made on this subject. |
Nine hundred and twenty-three cases of hematologic disorders in children who were admi-tted to department of pediatrics, SNUH, from 1955 to Oct. 1980 were analysed. The patients consisted of 624 males and 299 females. The results were as follows; 1.Mean annual percentage of hematologic patients among total admitted patients was 6.8%. 2.The peak age incidence of various hematologic disorders was... |
This is a clinical study on 72 cases of purpura hospitalized at Han Il Hospital during the period from Jan., 1970 to Dec, 1979. The authors obtained the following results : 1) Allergic purpura (25 cases, 34.7%) was the most common disease, followed by I.T.P. (20 cases, 27.8%), Ieukemia (10 cases, 13.9%), meningoccemia (7 cases, 9.7%), and aplastic anemia (5... |