Cite this page: Pernick N. Leukemia. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/cnstumorleukemia.html. Accessed December 6th, 2019.
Definition / general
- See also Leukemia chapter
- Usually diagnosed by CSF cytology
- Blast crises of > 300K may be associated with parenchymal or meningeal mass lesions and intravascular leukostasis, particularly in AML
Case reports
- 47 year old woman with tumor of monoblasts (Arch Pathol Lab Med 1999;123:327)
- Relapse of acute myelogenous leukemia as a cerebellar myeloblastoma showing megakaryoblastic differentiation (Mod Pathol 1999;12:1186)
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