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Acute lymphocytic leukemia masquerading as acute osteomyelitis

A report of two cases

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Two children each developed a focal destructive bone lesion accompanied by intermittent fever, swelling, tenderness and elevated ESR. Blood counts were normal; bone marrow aspiration showed acute leukemia. The bone lesions healed in both patients after anti-leukemic therapy. We suggest that the similar roentgenographic appearance of osteomyelitis, bone infarction and focal destructive lesions in leukemia probably reflects a common, basically ischemic process of bone.

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  1. Department of Hematology/Oncology, Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 622 West 168th Street, 10032, New York, New York, USA

    Anneliese L. Sitarz & J. A. Wolff

  2. Department of Radiology, Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 622 West 168th Street, 10032, New York, New York, USA

    W. E. Berdon & D. H. Baker

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Sitarz, A.L., Berdon, W.E., Wolff, J.A. et al. Acute lymphocytic leukemia masquerading as acute osteomyelitis. Pediatr Radiol 9, 33–35 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00973967

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