Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Presenting with Facial Nerve Palsy in an Infant

When a child presents with cranial nerve palsy and a bulging fontanel, a pediatric neurologist is often consulted to determine the cause of increased intracranial pressure. This report describes an infant with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) referred to Ali-bin-Abitaleb Hospital, Zahedan, eastern...

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Autores principales: KHAJEH, Ali, MIRI ALIABAD, Ghasem, FAYYAZI, Afshin, SOLEIMANI, Gholamreza, KEIKHA, Reza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6045940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30026776
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author KHAJEH, Ali
MIRI ALIABAD, Ghasem
FAYYAZI, Afshin
SOLEIMANI, Gholamreza
KEIKHA, Reza
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description When a child presents with cranial nerve palsy and a bulging fontanel, a pediatric neurologist is often consulted to determine the cause of increased intracranial pressure. This report describes an infant with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) referred to Ali-bin-Abitaleb Hospital, Zahedan, eastern Iran in 2013 who presented with seventh cranial nerve palsy and bulging fontanel. Chromosomal analysis and peripheral blood smear confirmed the diagnosis of CML.
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spelling pubmed-60459402018-10-01 Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Presenting with Facial Nerve Palsy in an Infant KHAJEH, Ali MIRI ALIABAD, Ghasem FAYYAZI, Afshin SOLEIMANI, Gholamreza KEIKHA, Reza Iran J Child Neurol Case Report When a child presents with cranial nerve palsy and a bulging fontanel, a pediatric neurologist is often consulted to determine the cause of increased intracranial pressure. This report describes an infant with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) referred to Ali-bin-Abitaleb Hospital, Zahedan, eastern Iran in 2013 who presented with seventh cranial nerve palsy and bulging fontanel. Chromosomal analysis and peripheral blood smear confirmed the diagnosis of CML. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6045940/ /pubmed/30026776 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Presenting with Facial Nerve Palsy in an Infant
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title_short Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Presenting with Facial Nerve Palsy in an Infant
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