December 2019 Case of the Month

Skin lesions in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia presenting with febrile neutropenia Submitted by: Amy Spallone, MD; Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, MD, ScD, PhD, FACP, FIDSA, FECMM, FAAM, FAAAS Institution: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Email: aspallone@mdanderson.org History: 40-year-old male admitted for fevers of one-week duration and neutropenia. His past medical history was significant for acute myeloid leukemia diagnosed one year prior, now relapsed and refractory to salvage chemotherapy. One month prior to admission at MD Anderson, he was admitted at an outside hospital for weakness and fevers. During that hospitalization, two nodular lesions were discovered on […]