| Literature DB >> 27429518 |
Deepesh Lad1, Pankaj Malhotra1, Neelam Varma2, Manupdesh Singh Sachdeva2, Ashim Das3, Radhika Srinivasan4, Amanjit Bal3, Alka Khadwal1, Gaurav Prakash1, Vikas Suri1, Savita Kumari1, Sanjay Jain1, Subhash Varma1.
Abstract
We report here a series of ten patients with uncommon presentations and associations of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) not reported hitherto or occasionally reported in literature. The first two cases describe unusual causes of abdominal distension in CLL and unusual sites infiltration by CLL. The next two cases illustrate occurrence of CLL in association with other hematological malignancies. Cases five and six describe unusual infections and their impact on CLL. Cases seven and eight depict associations of rare non-hematological autoimmune conditions with CLL. The last two cases describe transformation at unusual sites. This series of ten cases illustrates how a common leukemia like CLL can present in different forms and how despite so much progress in understanding of this leukemia so little is known of such presentations.Entities:
Keywords: Autoimmunity; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Infection; Infiltration; Rare presentation; Transformation
Year: 2014 PMID: 27429518 PMCID: PMC4930746 DOI: 10.1007/s12288-014-0488-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus ISSN: 0971-4502 Impact factor: 0.900