Article
A case of infantile acute monocytic leukemia caused by vertical transmission of the mother's leukemic cells.
Cancer - 1 Mar 1990
Osada S, Horibe K, Oiwa K, Yoshida J, Iwamura H, Matsuoka H, Adachi K, Morishima Y, Ohno R, Ueda R
Abstract excerpt
A case of infantile acute monocytic leukemia (AMoL), which was probably transmitted from a pregnant woman with leukemia to her unborn infant, is presented. A woman had AMoL when her third infant was born. This infant, who was a boy, also suffered from AMoL when he was 20 months of age. The infant's leukemic cells had the same cytochemical and immunophenotypic patterns as the mother's leukemic cells. By...
Topics
- Adult
- Female
- HLA Antigens
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Infant
- Karyotyping
- Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute
- Male
- Maternal-Fetal Exchange
- Phenotype