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Transient leukaemia cutis in hairy‐cell leukaemia
Author(s) -
BILSLAND D.,
SHAHRIARI S.,
DOUGLAS W.S.,
CHAUDHURI A.K.R.,
TODD W.T.A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1991.tb00349.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cutis , bone marrow , pathology , infiltration (hvac) , hairy cell , spleen , peripheral blood mononuclear cell , hairy cell leukemia , leukemia , immunology , biology , biochemistry , physics , in vitro , thermodynamics
Summary Leukaemic skin infiltration is uncommon in hairy‐cell leukaemia (HCL), a neoplasm characterized by the presence of uniform mononuclear cells with cytoplasmic projections in the blood, bone marrow and spleen. A case is reported in which leukaemia cutis was a transient phenomenon, appearing soon after the onset of a continuous pyrexia associated with marked systemic upset which was subsequently shown to be due to pulmonary tuberculosis.