Saturday, March 4, 2023

Blastic plasma cell dendritic neoplasm

 1. BPCDN is a rare hematologic neoplasm with poor prognosis.

2. It can involve cutaneous and CNS systems.

3. Recent breakthrough is the discovery of CD 123 is a targetable marker. A  new drug tagraxofusp was approved in Dec 2018.

Work up should include work up for AML:

- CBC, coag profile, CMP, LDH, uric acid, peripheral smear

-bmbx

-CSF/IT chemo and flow 

-NGS for myeloid mutation

- Peripheral flow --> CD 123, CD 4, CD 56

Exam: skin: violaceous nodules , bx skin lesion, mSWAT scoring


Treatment:

Ideally refer to academic center for CD 123 based clinical trials

CD 123+ chemo ( hyer CVAD) with IT chemo ( alternating methotrexate with cytarabine) followed by HSCT in CR1

In the community setting ALL like regimen HCVAD +/- Vencleta

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