Pleurisy as a Sign of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

The diagnosis of chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL) is essentially based on a blood smear and immunophenotyping by flow cytometry of circulating lymphocytes. Unusual locations of the disease can sometimes be observed. Here we report the case of a patient admitted for the management of pleurisy. The ple...

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Autores principales: Thouil, Afaf, Lakhal, Mohamed, Bachir, Houda, Bennani, Amal, Kouismi, Hatim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Pulmonology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123706
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36880
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author Thouil, Afaf
Lakhal, Mohamed
Bachir, Houda
Bennani, Amal
Kouismi, Hatim
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description The diagnosis of chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL) is essentially based on a blood smear and immunophenotyping by flow cytometry of circulating lymphocytes. Unusual locations of the disease can sometimes be observed. Here we report the case of a patient admitted for the management of pleurisy. The pleural effusion was lymphocytic exudate; histological examination of the pleural biopsy along with immunohistochemistry helped yield the diagnosis of secondary localization of CLL. The patient was transferred to the Internal Medicine department where chemotherapy was introduced.
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spelling pubmed-101475332023-04-29 Pleurisy as a Sign of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Thouil, Afaf Lakhal, Mohamed Bachir, Houda Bennani, Amal Kouismi, Hatim Cureus Pulmonology The diagnosis of chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL) is essentially based on a blood smear and immunophenotyping by flow cytometry of circulating lymphocytes. Unusual locations of the disease can sometimes be observed. Here we report the case of a patient admitted for the management of pleurisy. The pleural effusion was lymphocytic exudate; histological examination of the pleural biopsy along with immunohistochemistry helped yield the diagnosis of secondary localization of CLL. The patient was transferred to the Internal Medicine department where chemotherapy was introduced. Cureus 2023-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10147533/ /pubmed/37123706 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36880 Text en Copyright © 2023, Thouil et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Pulmonology
Thouil, Afaf
Lakhal, Mohamed
Bachir, Houda
Bennani, Amal
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Pleurisy as a Sign of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
title Pleurisy as a Sign of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
title_full Pleurisy as a Sign of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
title_fullStr Pleurisy as a Sign of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
title_full_unstemmed Pleurisy as a Sign of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
title_short Pleurisy as a Sign of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
title_sort pleurisy as a sign of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
topic Pulmonology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123706
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36880
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