BILATERAL PROPTOSIS - INITIAL AND RARE PRESENTATION: AML

Autor:	Tejasvini Chandra, Perwez Khan, Lubna Khan, Anshika Gupta
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine hemic and lymphatic diseases 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis 030221 ophthalmology & optometry eye diseases
Zdroj:	INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH. :17-18
DOI:	10.36106/ijar/0610699
Popis:	We report bilateral proptosis as the initial presentation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in a child. An Eight year child presented with a history of painless proptosis in the both eyes within 10 days. Radiological investigation (CT scan) showed inltration of orbit with the metastatic tumour cell. AML was diagnosed with complete blood count, General Blood Picture (GBP) and bone marrow biopsy. The presumptive diagnosis of leukemic inltration of the orbit is made. We report this case as AML can rarely present in child as a bilateral proptosis due to leukemic inltration. Urgent treatment modality for this rare condition is radiation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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