scholarly journals Hypercalcemia and Lytic Bone Lesions As a Rare Presentation of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Case Report

Author(s):  
Marjan Mouodi ◽  
Soghra Rabizadeh ◽  
Hasan Jalaeikhoo ◽  
Manouchehr Nakhjavani

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is a type of leukemia that generates from white blood cells in the bone marrow. ALL could present with different nonspecific symptoms. Hypercalcemia is a rare presentation in B-cell ALL. We reported a middle-aged man presented with hypercalcemia and osteolytic bone lesions without bone pain and a definitive diagnosis of B-cell ALL.

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Mahmood ◽  
Muhammad Ubaid ◽  
Syeda Taliya Rizvi

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is characterized by unchecked proliferation of malignant lymphoblasts which replaces the normal bone marrow culminating in anemia due to red blood cells inadequacy as well as in easy bruising/bleeding secondary to insufficient platelets production. Even the white blood cells which are produced excessively are immature and abnormal. ALL is the most common hematological malignancy in children. Most commonly, patients present with lymphadenopathy, recurrent infections, bleeding, fatigue, and bone pains. Bone pains, often particularly involving long bones, occur in about 21–38% of cases and are due to overcrowding of bone marrow with malignant cells. Vast majority of children with ALL have thrombocytopenia and/or anemia with a normal or mildly elevated white blood cells count with the presence of lymphoblasts on peripheral smear. About 50% of children present with bleeding while about 75% of patients have platelet count 100,000/microL. Visceromegaly is not uncommon but osteolytic lesions and hypercalcemia are rather uncommon. We present a 22-year-old gentleman with generalized fatigue and bone pains without visceromegaly. There was severe hypercalcemia with normal parathyroid levels but multiple osteolytic lesions. Peripheral smear showed anemia without blasts, whereas a bone marrow biopsy revealed > 30% blasts with interspersed CD 10 positive cells.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramzi Shawahna ◽  
Sultan Mosleh ◽  
Yahya Odeh ◽  
Rami Halawa ◽  
Majd Al-Ghoul

Abstract Objective Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most prevalent type of cancer among children. This study was conducted to describe and correlate the clinical characteristics and outcomes of treatment of patients with pediatric ALL in the main referral hospital in Palestine. Results Complete data of 69 patients were included in this analysis. The majority (79.7%) of the patients had B-ALL phenotype. After induction chemotherapy, remission was experienced by the vast majority of the patients and 5 (7.2%) experienced relapses. Cytogenetics for patients with B-ALL phenotype indicated that 10 (18.2%) patients had t(12, 21) translocation, 5 (9.1%) had hyperdiploidy, 4 (7.3%) had t(1, 19) translocation, and 2 (3.6%) had t(9, 22) translocation. The initial white blood cells (p value < 0.001), absolute neutrophils (p value = 0.011), and hemoglobin (p value < 0.001) were significantly lower in patients with B-cell ALL. Platelet counts were significantly lower (p value = 0.012) in patients with splenomegaly and those with bleeding symptoms (p value = 0.008). Presence of palmar pollar was positively associated (p value = 0.035) with T-cell ALL. Presence of hepatomegaly was positively associated (p value < 0.001) with splenomegaly.


Author(s):  
Prerana Sakharwade ◽  
Ankita Watmode ◽  
Bibin Kurian ◽  
Khushbu Meshram ◽  
Sonali Kolhekar ◽  
...  

Introduction: B- Cell lymphoblastic leukaemia of blood cancer that influences B- Lymphocytes, which are white blood cells that create within the delicate marrow of your bones (marrow) [1]. When healthy blood cells start to alter and expand out of control, this is called leukaemia. ALL is a tumour of immature lymphocytes. Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help the immune system function. Acute lymphoid leukaemia (ALL) is also known as acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. ALL is most visits in youthful children and people over the age of 50, but it can influence anybody at any age [2]. Aim: To acquire the knowledge regarding a case of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Clinical findings: Abdominal discomfort, fever high grade, chills, Weakness. Diagnostic Evaluation: Blood Test: Hb-5.5%, Total RBC count-2.21million/cu.mm, Total WBC count- 27400/cumm, RDW- 14.8%, HCT-17.7%, Monocytes-02%, Granulocytes-28%, Lymphocytes-68%, AST(SGOT)-110U/L. Peripheral Smear:  RBC: Total RBC Count- Decreased on smear, Haemoglobin- Decreased Predominantly normocytic with few micro showing moderate lymphomia, Platelets- Decreased on smear No hemoparacites are seen, Peripheral smear is suspicious of severe viral infection. Ultrasonography: Splenomegaly. Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy. B-cell lymphoblasts (immature white blood cells) are found in the bone marrow Therapeutic intervention: Blood Transfusion-30 times, Inj Levofloxacin, Inj. Piptaz, Inj. Pan, Inj. Emset, Inj. Doxy, Inj. Hydrocort, Inj. Avil, Tab prednisolone, Tab Dolo. Outcome: After Treatment, The patient shows improvement. His fever and abdominal discomfort were relived and his Hb% increased from 5.5% to 6% after blood transfusion. Conclusion: B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the most common types of leukemia in children but is rare in adults. My patient was admitted to medicine ward no-30, AVBRH with diagnosed of Acute Lymphatic Leukaemia and he had complaint of fever and abdominal discomfort. After getting appropriate treatment his condition was improved.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
PaurnimaU Bodhankar ◽  
Divya Balakrishnan ◽  
Nadhna Basheer ◽  
Mahesh Gopalakrishnan ◽  
Giridhar Anantharaman

Author(s):  
Ika Candradewi ◽  
Reno Ghaffur Bagasjvara

One of the diagnosis procedures for acute lymphoblastic leukemia is screening for blood cells by expert operator using microscope. This process is relatively long and will slow healing process of this disease which need fast treatment. Another way to screen this disease is by using digital image processing technique in microscopic image of blood smears to detect lymphoblast cells and types of white blood cells. One of essential step in digital image processing is segmentation because this process influences the subsequent process of detecting and classifying Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia disease. This research performed segmentation of white blood cells using moving k-means algorithm. Some process are done to remove noise such as red blood cells and reduce detection errors such as white blood cells and/or lymphoblastic cell  that’s appear overlap. Postprocessing are performed to improve segmentation quality and to separate connected white blood cell. The dataset in this study has been validated with expert clinical pathologists from Sardjito Regional General Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This research produces systems performance with results in sensitivity of 85.6%, precision 82.3%, Fscore of 83,9% and accuracy of 72.3%. Based on the results of the testing process with a much larger number of datasets on the side of the variations level of cell segmentation difficulties both in terms of illumination and overlapping cell, the method proposed in this study was able to detect or segment overlapping white blood cells better.


2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (8) ◽  
pp. 2465-2467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Hinterseer ◽  
Olga Stiefel ◽  
Daniel Neureiter ◽  
Gabriele Kandler ◽  
Stefan Vogt ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 79-80
Author(s):  
Vipul Taneja ◽  
Goud Raghvendra ◽  
Kusum Mahajan

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer. Survival probability of pediatric ALL had been 10-20%, but the most recent clinical trials with multiagent chemotherapy have achieved overall survival probability of better than 80%. This is achieved because of better supportive care, treatment stratification based on relapse risk, and the biological features of leukemic cells. Diagnosis of ALL was based principally on morphological identification of leukemic blasts in bone marrow, and immunophenotype assessment by flow cytometry is necessary, and most pediatric ALL cases are clinically classified as B-cell precursor, T-cell ALL, or mature B-cell types. Key words: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, ALL, Unilateral Facial palsy, pediatric ALL.


Author(s):  
Mohsen Sheykhhasan ◽  
Hamed Manoochehri ◽  
Leila Naserpour ◽  
Naser Kalhor

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a prevalent and highly progressive cancer in children and adolescents associated with an excessive production of immature lymphocytes in the bone marrow, which causes a negative effect on the production of other blood components, such as red blood cells, platelets, and other white blood cells (1-3).


Author(s):  
Arpana Mahajan ◽  
Dr. Sheshang D. Degadwala ◽  
Dhairya Vyas ◽  
Rocky Upadhyay ◽  
Harsh S Dave

Leukemias are classified as either myelogenous (also called myeloid) or lymphocytic depending on which types of white blood cells are affected. Acute leukemias occur when the bone marrow produces immature white cells, and chronic leukemias occur when the marrow produces mature cells. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes too many immature lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). Leukemia may affect red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. ALL is most common in childhood, with a peak incidence at 2–5 years of age and another peak in old age. Here is an automatic segmentation technique that uses two-color systems and the clustering algorithm K-means. The proposed approach is evaluated on three public image databases with different characteristics and performance measures: accuracy, speci?city, sensitivity and Kappa index. Segmentation and classification of acute lymphoblastic leukemia can be done by using Supervise Learning Approach. In that hybrid model with color and cluster system will be used.


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