A clinical case of extramedullary skin lesion in a patient with acute myelomonocytic leukemia

Abstract

Acute myelomonocytic leukemia is a rare form of leukemia, in which the bone marrow is damaged by morphologically immature, tumor cells, which subsequently displace the normal cellular composition and involve other body systems in the pathological process. Among all acute myeloid leukemias, 5–30 % is the myelomonocytic form. The peculiarity of this form of leukemia is the extramedullary manifestations – leukemides, the appearance of which most often indicates an unfavorable prognosis. The article discusses a clinical case of acute myelomonocytic leukemia with the development of extramedullary skin lesions (leukemides) in a patient.

Keywords

• myelomonocytic leukemia
• extramedullary
• leukemides