SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTION OF A SINGLE LESION OF MYELOID LEUKEMIA CUTIS IN AN INFANT: Case Report and Discussion

Abstract

Though infantile leukemia has a historically poor prognosis, there may be a subset of patients with cutaneous disease whose disease will resolve without therapy. The authors report a case of infantile leukemia cutis who presented with a single subcutaneous chloroma that spontaneously resolved over the course of several weeks and who remains without evidence of disease nearly two years later. After reviewing the literature of congenital leukemia cutis, the authors conclude that withholding chemotherapy in infants with cutaneous myeloid leukemia in the absence of known negative prognostic factors (MLL or BCR-ABL translocations) or progressive disease is clinically indicated.

Keywords:

• AML
• chemotherapy
• infantile leukemia
• leukemia cutis
• resolution