The authors report the case of a 59-year-old woman who developed acute myeloid leukemia nine months after the resolution of systemic sarcoidosis treated by corticosteroid therapy. This rare case poses the questions of the physiopathogenic mechanisms, particularly a granulomatous reaction to leukemic antigens or to cytokines or of the role of an infectious agent.

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