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Lymphocytic leukemia with coexistent localized reticulum cell sarcoma
Author(s) -
Givler Robert L.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(196806)21:6<1184::aid-cncr2820210621>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - reticulum cell sarcoma , leukemia , autopsy , medicine , sarcoma , pathology , chronic lymphocytic leukemia , immunology
Three cases of lymphocytic leukemia are reported in which autopsy disclosed the unexpected findings of a coexistent localized reticulum cell sarcoma. As in previously reported cases of this coexistence, the leukemia preceded the sarcoma and the two diseases coexisted at autopsy with a dual character. The author suggests the relation of the leukemia and sarcoma differed in each of the three cases. Previously reported cases of a second form of association—lymphocytic leukemia and Hodgkin's disease—are reviewed. The author believes that these latter cases represent either chance occurrence or errors in interpretation.