Giant radiation-induced cavernous haemangioma before reduced-intensity bone marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Giant radiation-induced cavernous haemangioma before reduced-intensity bone marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
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急性淋巴细胞白血病低强度骨髓移植前巨大的放射诱发海绵状血管瘤。
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10.1038/s41409-018-0272-8
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2019
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Kawano Y.
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Saito A;Nishikawa T;Oyoshi T;Nakagawa S;Kodama Y;Yamada A;Kinoshita M;Okamoto Y;Arita K;Moritake H;Kawano Y.
Although performed less frequently, cranial irradiation is used to treat leukaemia and lymphoma and prevent tumour infiltration to the central nervous system (CNS). One of the late complications of cranial irradiation is radiation-induced cavernous haemangioma (RICH), which develops cumulatively over up to 10 years after cranial irradiation in~ 40% patients [1–3]. Rather than radiation-induced secondary neoplasm, RICH is regarded as a vascular disorder caused by radiation-induced damage to small intracranial vessels [4]. Although asymptomatic, RICH is incidentally detected during imaging tests in most cases. Asymptomatic patients are only observed and not treated even after diagnosis [2, 5, 6]. Few cases of RICH developing after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) have been reported; however, there are no reports in which RICH was observed prior to transplantation nor is there any known method to manage RICH that develops during HSCT [6]. Here, we report the case of a 10-year-old boy with second relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) with a giant 30-mm RICH. Prior to conditioning, the patient developed haemorrhage and hydrocephalus that required sub-occipital craniotomy to excise the haemangioma. Reduced-intensity conditioning was performed~ 1 month after craniotomy, followed by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from an unrelated donor.The patient was a 10-year-old boy with healthy parents and no siblings. At age 2 years, he was diagnosed with B cell precursor ALL (initial exam findings of white blood cell count: 37,500/µL; chromosome G-banding: 46, XY, t (5; 22)(q35; 11.2), der (9; 15)(q10; q10); CNS lesions: negative). He was started on multi-agent systemic chemotherapy (KYCCSG-ALL02 [ref. 7]) and achieved remission. At age 5 year, he experienced an isolated CNS relapse during maintenance therapy; thus, remission-induction therapy was restarted using the ALL-REZ BFM 2002 protocol [8], resulting in a second remission. Thereafter, at age 6.5 years, the patient received radiation therapy to the whole brain (18Gy/10 Fr) and whole spine (15Gy/10 Fr). At age 8 years, the planned treatment was ended with maintained remission. At age 10 years, routine examination revealed a significant increase in white blood cell count at 44,600/µL; the patient was diagnosed with second relapse isolated to the bone marrow. Chromosome G-banding demonstrated a karyotype of 46, XY, t (5; 9; 22)(q35; q34; q11. 2), and fluorescence in situ hybridisation testing revealed a bcr-abl fusion signal, indicating that the patient had Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to starting the treatment revealed a large RICH measuring 11mm in diameter (Fig. 1 a). The patients were started on systemic chemotherapy (EsPhALL regimen [ref. 9]) with adjuvant imatinib. At the end of early intensification therapy at age 10.9 years, the levels of minor bcr-abl chimeric mRNA were below the detection threshold, and the patient was referred to our hospital for allogeneic HSCT.