Initial presentation of acute myelogenous leukemia in the infiltrate underlying an actinic keratosis

• Main Authors: Collin Blattner (Author), Andrea DeDonato (Author), Elen Blochin (Author), Viktoryia Kazlouskaya (Author), Dirk M Elston (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We report an 85-year-old female patient who presented with an erythematous keratotic lesion on her temple suspicious of squamous cell carcinoma. Histological evaluation revealed actinic keratosis, but the underlying atypical infiltrate contained atypical myeloid forms consistent with acute myelogeno...