Open AccessAdult acute lymphoblastic leukemia mimicking renal cell carcinoma with wide spread bone metastasis
Author(s) -
Urmila Majhi,
Kanchan Murhekar,
Parthasarthy Saikrishnan,
Shirley Sunder Singh
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.136674
Subject(s) - lymphoblastic leukemia , medicine , renal cell carcinoma , pathology , metastasis , bone metastasis , leukemia , oncology , cancer
A few cases with bilateral renal enlargement in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are reported in literature. In this article, we report an unusual case of ALL in an adult presenting as multiple lesions in both kidneys and multiple bone lesions.