Myeloid sarcoma

Myeloid sarcoma is a rare solid tumor of the myelogenous cells occurring in an extramedullary site.

Extramedullary hematopoiesis

The process of hematopoiesis occurring outside of the bone marrow (in the liver, thymus, and spleen) in the postnatal organisms.


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PMID (PMCID)
11599111
 FEMALE
Lobular carcinoma with cytoplasmic granules.
Vdovenko A, Bass R, Tauchi-Nishi P, Namiki T.
Diagn Cytopathol. 2001;25(4):253-7.
The cytologic differential diagnosis included granulocytic sarcoma, metastatic melanoma, extramedullary hematopoiesis, large granulocytic leukemia/lymphoma, and mast-cell tumor.
2338034
 FEMALE Child
Fine-needle aspiration cytology of granulocytic sarcoma and myeloid metaplasia.
Silverman JF, Geisinger KR, Park HK, Strausbauch PR, Frable WJ.
Diagn Cytopathol. 1990;6(2):106-11.
The fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology of two cases of granulocytic sarcoma involving the breast is reported along with the FNA cytology of one case of myeloid metaplasia (extramedullary hematopoiesis) involving an axillary lymph node.
2595427
 MALE Middle Aged
Intracranial granulocytic sarcoma in postpolycythemia myeloid metaplasia.
Roy EP 3rd, Rogers JS 2nd, Riggs JE.
South Med J. 1989;82(12):1564-7.
A 57-year-old man with a ten-year history of polycythemia vera had myeloid metaplasia, extramedullary hematopoiesis, and terminally, possible leukemic transformation with intracranial granulocytic sarcoma.