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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1974;17(4):307-311. Published online April 30, 1974.

A Case of Erythroleukemia in Childhood

Eui Hyun Jo¹, Sang Man Shin¹, Sang Jhoo Lee¹, Myong Joon Cho²

¹Dept, of Pediatrics, College of Medicine、Kyung Hee University
²Dept, of ClinicaI Pathology, College of Medicine、Kyung Hee University

Abstract

A case of erythroleukemia in 8 year old boy is presented. It is a systemic hemopathy characterized by abnormal proliferation of defective erythroid and myeloid cells and is rare in childhood. Physical examination shows pallor, general weakness and necrotic inflammation in mucous membrane of mouth, tonsils and gingivae associated with bleeding, there are grade 11-111 systolic murmur on apical area, hepatosplenomegaly and a few cervical and inguinal lymphadenopathy, The patient has severe anemia, leukocytosis and thrombocytopenia. Blast cells and nucleated erythrocytes are found in the peripheral blood. Bone marrow show hyperplasia with an in increase in erythroid and myeloid cells and also contains Auer Bodies in many myeloblast in this case Brief review of related literatures was made.

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