| Literature DB >> 33489453 |
Yanquan Liu1, Mohammed Awal Issah1, Xiaomei Hu2, Jianzhen Shen1.
Abstract
T lymphoblastic lymphoma/leukemia (T-LBL/ALL) is a highly malignant hematological tumor common in young males. Most T-LBL/ALL patients usually initially seek medical treatment for clinical manifestations of non-hematological diseases. Presently, T-ALL chemotherapy is often used for the treatment of T-LBL/ALL internationally. With the application of high-intensity standard chemotherapy, the efficacy and prognosis of T-LBL/ALL are still not optimistic. The authors present a young male patient with facial and neck edema as the initial symptoms. This young patient of T-LBL/ALL was found to have a mediastinal mass after CT examination and he was finally diagnosed as highly malignant T-LBL/ALL. Unfortunately, after undergoing three standard courses of high-intensity chemotherapy, the young male patient eventually died of white blood cell stasis and severe infection caused by hyperleukocytosis. To this end, we find that the prognosis of T-LBL/ALL with multiple gene mutations or fusions and hyperleukocytosis, is extremely poor, and probably becomes a medical problem worthy of continuing resolution in the field of hematology and oncology. AJBREntities:
Keywords: PICALM-MLLT10; T lymphoblastic lymphoma/leukemia; hyperleukocyte; prognosis
Year: 2020 PMID: 33489453 PMCID: PMC7811898
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Blood Res ISSN: 2160-1992