OSTEOMYELITIS OCCURRING LEUKEMIA PATIENT: A CASE REPORT

백혈병 환자에서 발생한 골수염 : 증례보고

Leukemia is a malignancy caused by precursor cells of white blood cell. It is a malignant tumor of hematopoietic organs, characterized by the disorder of hematopoietic function due to the proliferation of immature bone marrow cells or lymphatic cells and by abnormal tissue infiltration of leukemic cells. The major signs of leukemia are caused by the failure of bone marrow function. As the number of red blood cells decreases, anemia is to appear. The number of white blood cells in leukemia is usually increased but immature white blood cells circulating the body has little defense ability, thus become susceptible to infection. 27 year-old female patient who was treated chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation after diagnosed as chronic myelogenous leukemia(CML) was diagnosed as osteomyelitis in mandible after clinical and dental radiographic film examination. Because of the result of examination, the involved tooth of the patient was extracted accompanied by sequestrectomy and saucerization under general anesthesia. After the patient had long term medication of antibiotics, the lesion was healed. Therefore. author, et al. report this case with literature review.

저자 등은 구강악안면 영역에 발생한 대상 포진 환자에서 병소에 대한 보존적 처치와 통증조절, acyclovir 투여를 통해 현격한 증상 완화와 포진후 신경통(postherpetic neuralgia), 치아탈락을 동반한 치조골 괴사 등의 합병증 억제를 치험하였기에, 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.