Granulocytic sarcoma with late transformation into acute myeloblastic leukemia--case report
Basa, J.; Wolska-Smoleń, T.; Walter, Z.; Skotnicki, A.B.
Przeglad Lekarski 63(8): 706-710
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2240 PMID: 17441389 Document Number: 603305
Case presentation of a 28-year-old patient with acute myeloblastic leukemia (FAB AML-M4), who underwent surgery of an inguinal tumor a year before the diagnosis of leukemia was made. In retrospective assessment a diagnosis of granulocytic sarcoma was made. After induction and consolidation chemotherapy he achieved complete hematological remission and underwent matched unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation. After six months he relapsed. A repeated induction chemotherapy resulted in hematological remission. During maintenance therapy symptoms that appeared suggested an extramedullary relapse.