Meeting abstract
https://doi.org/10.26800/LV-144-supl2-CR37
Low back pain - an unusual presentation of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a child – a case report
Kiarash Pourmodjib
; School of Medicine University of Zagreb
Zrinko Šalek
; School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Division for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Deparment of Pediatrics; University Hospital Centre Zagreb
Ernest Bilić
; School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Division for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Deparment of Pediatrics; University Hospital Centre Zagreb
Abstract
INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVES: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common malignant disease in children. Common inital symptoms are fatigue, pallor, bleeding tendency and bone pain. Laboratory findings show cytopenia with or without leukocytosis and often elevated lactate dehydrogenase. First line therapy is corticosteroids, chemotherapy and in high-risk cases with non - favorable outcome hematopoietic stem cells transplantation.
Keywords
ALL, chemotherapy, LDH, pancytopenia, sacroileitis
Hrčak ID:
278965
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Publication date:
27.4.2022.
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