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An unusual case of extramedullary blast crisis in chronic myelocytic leukaemia
Author(s) -
Feng ChiShun
Publication year - 1988
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.2830290210
Subject(s) - blast crisis , medicine , meninges , chronic myeloid leukaemia , transformation (genetics) , bone marrow , pediatrics , pathology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
A 27‐year‐old man with chronic myelocytic leukaemia sustained two episodes of extramedullary blast transformation. The first episode was a lymphoblastic transformation in his cervical lymph nodes, which was treated and in remission for 15 months when a second blastic transformation occurred in the meninges. All the while, the bone marrow was free from blastic crisis.