Colonic Involvement in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia

Various gastrointestinal infiltrations have been described in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Here, we report a 69-year-old man with CLL and anaemia in whom the macroscopic finding of colonoscopy was normal, but the histological specimens revealed lymphocytic leukemia in ileum and...

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Autores principales: Arkkila, P. E. T., Nuutinen, H., Ebeling, F., Elonen, E., Kärkkäinen, P., Karjalainen-Lindsberg, M.-L.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18795120
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/742146
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author Arkkila, P. E. T.
Nuutinen, H.
Ebeling, F.
Elonen, E.
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Ebeling, F.
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description Various gastrointestinal infiltrations have been described in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Here, we report a 69-year-old man with CLL and anaemia in whom the macroscopic finding of colonoscopy was normal, but the histological specimens revealed lymphocytic leukemia in ileum and in colon. If a CLL patient has any symptoms suggesting a possible GI manifestation of the haematologic disease or anaemia not explained by bone marrow infiltration or hemolysis, the diagnostic evaluation should include endoscopies with adequate biopsies.
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spelling pubmed-25331052008-09-15 Colonic Involvement in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Arkkila, P. E. T. Nuutinen, H. Ebeling, F. Elonen, E. Kärkkäinen, P. Karjalainen-Lindsberg, M.-L. Gastroenterol Res Pract Case Report Various gastrointestinal infiltrations have been described in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Here, we report a 69-year-old man with CLL and anaemia in whom the macroscopic finding of colonoscopy was normal, but the histological specimens revealed lymphocytic leukemia in ileum and in colon. If a CLL patient has any symptoms suggesting a possible GI manifestation of the haematologic disease or anaemia not explained by bone marrow infiltration or hemolysis, the diagnostic evaluation should include endoscopies with adequate biopsies. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2008 2008-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2533105/ /pubmed/18795120 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/742146 Text en Copyright © 2008 P. E. T. Arkkila et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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