Open AccessMigratory polyarthritis in aleukemic lymphoblastic leukemia: An undesignated paraneoplastic syndrome
Author(s) -
Sujata Jali,
G Prashanth,
Preeti Amarkhed
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of the scientific society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7127
pISSN - 0974-5009
DOI - 10.4103/0974-5009.109704
Subject(s) - medicine , polyarthritis , lymphoblastic leukemia , leukemia , monocytic leukemia , immunology , pathology , arthritis
Arthritic presentation of childhood acute leukemias is well known. A subset of these children may have peripheral blast cells undetectable (aleukemic leukemia). We report classical asymmetric, fleeting type of polyarthritis involving the large weight-bearing joints along with remittent fever and normal leukocyte counts as a presenting feature of acute lymphoblastic aleukemic leukemia, deliberated as a ′paraneoplastic syndrome′ of childhood