:Leukemid

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Leukemids, also known as nonspecific cutaneous conditions associated with leukemia, are nonspecific skin lesions that occur with leukemia which are not related to leukemic cell infiltration.{{cite book |author1=James, William D. |author2=Berger, Timothy G. |title=Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology |publisher=Saunders Elsevier |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7216-2921-6 |display-authors=etal}}{{rp|745}}{{cite journal |vauthors=Marx LH, Woodman RC, Pineo GF |title=Papular leukemids |journal=Cutis |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=201–2 |date=March 1986 |pmid=3956262 }} This condition may be contrasted with leukemia cutis, which is the infiltration of neoplastic leukocytes or their precursors into the skin resulting in clinically identifiable cutaneous lesions.{{rp|744}}

The term dates back to at least 1915.{{cite book|author=Kansas Medical Society|title=The journal of the Kansas Medical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xegBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA100|access-date=14 May 2011|year=1915|publisher=Kansas Medical Society|pages=100–}}

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Category:Lymphoid-related cutaneous conditions

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