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Systemic mastocytosis associated with t(8;21) acute myeloid leukemia in a child: detection of the D816A mutation of KIT.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 15 Dec 2012
Yabe Miharu, Masukawa Atsuko, Kato Shunichi, Yabe Hiromasa, Nakamura Naoya, Matsushita Hiromichi
Abstract excerpt
Systemic mastocytosis (SM) associated with t(8;21) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is very rare, and the D816 mutation of the KIT gene has previously been detected only in adult patients. We herein report the case of a 5-year-old female presenting with AML harboring t(8;21)(q22;q22). Her AML was refractory to chemotherapy, and bone marrow mastocytosis developed simultaneously at the initial diagnosis and during...
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