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Coexistence of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Author(s) -
Omura George A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
american journal of hematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1096-8652
pISSN - 0361-8609
DOI - 10.1002/ajh.2830110413
Subject(s) - paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria , medicine , chronic lymphocytic leukemia , hemoglobinuria , hematologic disease , leukemia , immunology , disease , pathology , anemia
A man with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and a lymphoproliferative disorder is described. The latter condition evolved into a typical picture of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The significance of this association is obscure, but treatment of one or the other disease was clearly not an etiologic factor in this concurrence.