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T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia presenting with leukemic serous effusion in a prostate cancer patient
Author(s) -
Ozan Salim,
Derya Kıvrak Salim,
Sibel Berker,
Levent Ündar
Publication year - 2015
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 - 10.4103/0973-1482.163707
Subject(s) - prolymphocytic leukemia , medicine , serous fluid , pathology , leukemia , cancer , bone marrow , prostate cancer , pleural effusion , chronic lymphocytic leukemia
T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (T-PLL) is highly aggressive mature postthymic lymphoproliferative disorder, which is characterized by several clinical features. Leukemic prolymphocytes are found in the peripheral blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, liver, and sometimes skin. T-PLL and solid tumor coincidence was reported by only four previous cases. Solid tumor components included breast cancer, classic Kaposi sarcoma, gastric cancer, and lung cancer in those cases. We report the first case of T-PLL, an extremely rare disease, presented with serous effusion in an elderly prostate cancer patient in literature.

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