Congenital juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia: case report and review
Clark, R.H.; Taylor, L.L.; Wells, R.J.
Pediatrics 73(3): 324-326
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-4005 PMID: 6583654 Document Number: 231117
The case of a patient with ecchymosis, hepatomegaly, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, and anemia at birth is presented. Throughout his course, thrombocytopenia, anemia, and leukocytosis without a marked increase in the number of blast forms in either peripheral blood or bone marrow persisted until the patient developed a blast crisis shortly before his death at age 4 months. This patient is the youngest reported to have the juvenile form of chronic myelogenous leukemia and the first that in the present era can be considered congenital in origin.