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juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia

Monday 26 March 2007

- hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (16487587)

Sporadic associations

- Crohn disease (16682290)

- Kikuchi disease (16487587)

Associations

- neurofibromatosis
- juvenile xanthogranulomas
-  Noonan syndrome (PTPN11 mutations) (10598665)

Cytogenetics

- monosomy 7

Molecular biology

- PTPN11 mutations (16518851, 15928039, 12717436)

Differential diagnosis

- familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHLs) (16487587)

  • FHL1 (MIM.267700)
  • FHL2 (MIM.603553)
  • FHL3 (MIM.608898)
  • FHL4 (MIM.603552)

See also

- acute myelomonocytic leukemia

References

- Cutaneous xanthogranulomas, hepatosplenomegaly, anemia, and thrombocytopenia as presenting signs of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Cham E, Siegel D, Ruben BS. Am J Clin Dermatol. 2010;11(1):67-71. PMID: 20000879

- Flotho C, Steinemann D, Mullighan CG, Neale G, Mayer K, Kratz CP, Schlegelberger B, Downing JR, Niemeyer CM. Genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia identifies uniparental disomy surrounding the NF1 locus in cases associated with neurofibromatosis but not in cases with mutant RAS or PTPN11. Oncogene. 2007 Mar 12; PMID: 17353900

- Matsuda K, Shimada A, Yoshida N, Ogawa A, Watanabe A, Yajima S, Iizuka S, Koike K, Yanai F, Kawasaki K, Yanagimachi M, Kikuchi A, Ohtsuka Y, Hidaka E, Yamauchi K, Tanaka M, Yanagisawa R, Nakazawa Y, Shiohara M, Manabe A, Kojima S, Koike K. Spontaneous improvement of hematologic abnormalities in patients having juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia with specific RAS mutations. Blood. 2007 Mar 1; PMID: 17332249

- Christiansen DH, Desta F, Andersen MK, Pedersen-Bjergaard J. Mutations of the PTPN11 gene in therapy-related MDS and AML with rare balanced chromosome translocations. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2007 Feb 28; PMID: 17330262

- Buijs A, Bruin M. Fusion of FIP1L1 and RARA as a result of a novel t(4;17)(q12;q21) in a case of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 2007 Feb 15; PMID: 17301809

- Hasle H. Myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative disorders in children. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2007 Feb;19(1):1-8. PMID: 17224655

- Zecca M, Bergamaschi G, Kratz C, Bergstrasser E, Danesino C, De Filippi P, Hasle H, Lisini D, Locatelli F, Pession A, Sainati L, Stary J, Trebo M, van den Heuvel-Eibrink M, Wojcik D, Niemeyer CM. JAK2 V617F mutation is a rare event in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 2007 Feb;21(2):367-9. PMID: 17151700

- Reimann C, Arola M, Bierings M, Karow A, van den Heuvel-Eibrink MM, Hasle H, Niemeyer CM, Kratz CP. A novel somatic K-Ras mutation in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 2006 Sep;20(9):1637-8. PMID: 16826224