A Case Report on Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in A 10 Days Old Neonate

Although leukemia’s are the most common malignant disease seen in children, it occurs rarely in neonates. Only few cases of congenital leukemia have been reported in literature. We report here a rare case of congenital lymphoblastic leukemia in a 10 days old full term male neonate of normal home delivery who presented in the hospital with complaints of fast breathing and fever of 1 day duration. Initial clinical manifestation was that of Multi organ dysfunction syndrome due to late onset neonatal sepsis but was found to have acute leukemia on subsequent investigations.