Granulocytic sarcoma presenting with severe adenopathy (cervical lymph nodes, tonsils, and adenoids) in a child with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia and successful treatment with allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Int J Hematol. 2004 Aug;80(2):186-9. doi: 10.1532/ijh97.04040.

Abstract

The occurrence of adenopathy in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome-associated extramedullary myeloid cell tumors has rarely been reported. We describe a 7-year-old girl with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia who showed the novel chromosomal abnormality t(9;12)(p22;q24.1) and who developed severe adenopathy of the cervical lymph nodes, tonsils, and adenoids that was manifested as granulocytic sarcoma. Following chemotherapy, the patient underwent a conditioning regimen of busulfan, cyclophosphamide, and total body irradiation followed by successful allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from her single HLA locus-mismatched mother at 6 months after her diagnosis. The patient continues to be well and in remission 3 years after stem cell transplantation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenoids / pathology
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation / methods*
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / complications*
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology
  • Palatine Tonsil / pathology
  • Radiography
  • Sarcoma, Myeloid / diagnosis*
  • Sarcoma, Myeloid / diagnostic imaging
  • Sarcoma, Myeloid / pathology
  • Sarcoma, Myeloid / surgery*
  • Treatment Outcome