Open AccessTwelve‐year remission of polycythemia vera following hodgkin's disease and chemotherapy
Author(s) -
Stolinsky David C.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
ca: a cancer journal for clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 62.937
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1542-4863
pISSN - 0007-9235
DOI - 10.3322/canjclin.31.1.57
Subject(s) - polycythemia vera , medicine , polycythemia rubra vera , disease , chemotherapy , gastroenterology , overproduction , immunology , biology , biochemistry , enzyme
Polycythemia vera is a condition characterized by the overproduction of red blood cells, and in many cases of leukocytes and platelets as well, in the absence of hypoxia or other known inciting factors. The association of polycythemia vera and acute leukemia is well known, but the author is unaware of prior reports of polycythemia vera and Hodgkin's disease concurrent in the same patient.