partment of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Los

Acute leukemia in 32 infants diagnosed under one year of age was characterized by a higher than usual initial leukocyte count, a high incidence of skin infiltration and a variety of roentgenographic ab-normalities. Sepsis and hemorrhage were the common causes of death. The prognosis for survival of children with acute leukemia under the age of one should improve with multiple drug therapy. LEUKEMIA is the most common form of malignancy in childhood. It has been sug-gested that this phenomenon may represent a response to normal growth stimuli upon the bone marrow of children which is more receptive than that of adults.1,2 If so, one might anticipate a more acute form of the disease in the child less than one year of age since this is the period of most rapi