Multiple skin metastases in a patient with acute myelomonocytic leukemia

Abstract

Metastatic skin tumors may occur before or at any time before the diagnosis of malignancy. Skin metastases are thought to be indicative of advanced stage malignancy or non-treatment response. Cutaneous metastases are a worse prognostic mark, especially in patients with cancer of the lung, ovary, upper respiratory tract, or upper digestive tract. Acute myelomonocytic leukemia is a malignant-hematopoietic clonal sickness of bone marrow and disrupts production of normal blood cells. Although there are many and various dermatological findings in acute leukemia, they are mostly due to cytopenia and haemostasis disorders and skin metastasis is not frequent. Here, we present a case of skin involvement with a diagnosis of acute myelomonocytic leukemia, which is uncommon in the literature and nodules on the whole body.

Keywords

• acute leukemia
• acute myelomonocytic leukemia