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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2012; 10(02): 147-149
DOI: 10.3233/JPN-2012-0549
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Macrocephaly and acute myeloid leukemia

Rakesh Mondal
a   Department of Pediatrics, North Bengal Medical College, Sushrutnagar, Darjeeling, India
,
Sumantra Sarkar
b   Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
,
Jayanta Ghosh
a   Department of Pediatrics, North Bengal Medical College, Sushrutnagar, Darjeeling, India
,
Abhisek Saren
a   Department of Pediatrics, North Bengal Medical College, Sushrutnagar, Darjeeling, India
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14 July 2011

25 September 2011

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30 July 2015 (online)

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Abstract

Leukemia is the most common malignancy in children. There were different atypical presentations of acute leukemia described in literature like cardiac metastasis, maxillofacial mass etc. Macrocephaly as a presentation of acute lymphoblastic leukemia is reported earlier. We describe a 3-year-old male who presented with macrocephaly and chronic raised intracranial pressure, which was subsequently diagnosed to be case of acute promyelocytic leukemia. This pointed out that macrocephaly could even be a rare and early manifestation of acute myeloid leukemia in children.

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Macrocephaly - leukemia