Low back pain - an unusual presentation of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a child – a case report

INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVES: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common malignant disease in children. Common inital symptoms are fatigue, pallor, bleeding tendency and bone pain. Laboratory findings show cytopenia with or without leukocytosis and often elevated lactate dehydrogenase. First line therapy is corticosteroids, chemotherapy and in high-risk cases with non - favorable outcome hematopoietic stem cells transplantation