Novel Insights into Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Ophthalmic Relapses from a Nationwide Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: Ten to fifteen percent of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) relapse following treatment. Of these, less than 2% display ophthalmic relapses, which owing to their scarcity, are largely undocumented, leaving clinicians with few diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations, despite serious functional sequelae. We conducted a French multicenter retrospective study to collect all clinical, radiological, biological, and therapeutic data, and outcomes for children with ALL ophthalmic relapses. From 2000 to 2020, 20 ophthalmic relapses occurring after first-line therapy performed before January 1^st, 2017 were included in our study: 14 B-ALL and 6 T-ALL. Fifteen patients (75%) had concomitant involvement of the central nervous system, and 11 (55%) a combined bone marrow rela

SUBMITTER: Le Louet S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8899370 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature