ABSTRACT
We report the case of a 2-year-old boy with hypereosinophilia who presented with fever, muscle pain and heart, CNS and skin involvement. He was treated with steroids with partial response. Six months after diagnosis of hypereosinophilia, several scalp nodules were surgically removed and Hypoderma bovis larvae were found, which led to the diagnosis of cutaneous myiasis. Following removal of the larvae, the clinical and hematological manifestations returned to normal.
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Eosinophilia/etiology , Hypodermyiasis/complications , Animals , Child, Preschool , Diptera , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
A child with AIDS is presented who developed L1-ALL while being treated for L3-AL. After achievement of complete remission of the former, he suffered a relapse with L3 morphology. Although the possibilities of a shift in both the morphology and the immunophenotype of ALL in relapse are well known, the rarity of L1-ALL in association with AIDS is stressed by the authors, along with the factors related with the morphologic and phenotypic changes shown by these patients.
