Granulocytic sarcoma presenting as a large mediastinal mass with acute spinal cord compression in a non-leukemic child [2]

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 527-

  Howell, Della L ^a,b   Abramowsky, Carlos R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Children's Healthcare of Atlanta ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA, GRANULOCYTIC; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 18144430945     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.20293     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. Neiman RS, Barcos M, Berard C, et al. Granulocytic sarcoma: A clinicopathologic study of 61 biopsied cases. Cancer 1981;48:1426-1437.
2. Landis DM, Aboulafia DM. Granulocytic sarcoma: An unusual complication of aleukemic myeloid leukemia causing spinal cord compression. A case report and literature review. Leuk Lymphoma 2003;44:1753-1760.
3. Mostafavi H, Lennarson PJ, Traynelis VC. Granulocytic sarcoma of the spine. Neurosurgery 2000;46:78-84.
4. Ravandi-Kashani F, Cortes J, Giles FJ. Myelodysplasia presenting as granulocytic sarcoma of mediastinum causing superior vena cava syndrome. Leuk Lymphoma 2000;36:631-637.
5. Takasugi JE, Godwin JD, Marglin SI, et al. Intrathoracic granulocytic sarcomas. J Thorac Imaging 1996;11:223-230.