ACUTE MYELOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA RELAPSE WITH INTRAMEDULLARY SPINAL-CORD TUMOR INVOLVEMENT DURING HEMATOLOGICAL REMISSION

Authors
FUJIWARA H UMEDA Y YONEKURA S
Citation
H. Fujiwara et al., ACUTE MYELOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA RELAPSE WITH INTRAMEDULLARY SPINAL-CORD TUMOR INVOLVEMENT DURING HEMATOLOGICAL REMISSION, Internal medicine, 34(9), 1995, pp. 875-878
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Internal medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
09182918
Volume
34
Issue
9
Year of publication
1995
Pages
875 - 878
Database
ISI
SICI code
0918-2918(1995)34:9<875:AMRWIS>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
A 64-year-old man who had been diagnosed as having acute myelocytic le ukemia (M2 in the FAB classification) developed central nervous system involvement of intramedullary spinal cord during hematological remiss ion. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a low signal intensity mass on T1-weighted images and a high signal intensity mass on T2-weighted ima ges. The mass was slightly enhanced by gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepe ntaacetic acid. His neurological symptoms were slightly improved by in trathecal and systemic chemotherapy combined with external irradiation , although the size of the mass did not change.