Secondary Leukemia in a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patient Presenting as Myeloid Sarcoma of the Breast

As defined by the World Health Organization classification of tumors of hematopoietic and lymphoid tissue, myeloid sarcoma (MS) is a tumor mass of myeloblasts or immature myeloid cells that can arise before, concurrent with, or following acute myeloid leukaemia. We describe a case of secondary leuke...

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Autores principales: Pitini, Vincenzo, Arrigo, Carmela, Sauta, Maria Grazia, Altavilla, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22937314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/914613
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author Pitini, Vincenzo
Arrigo, Carmela
Sauta, Maria Grazia
Altavilla, Giuseppe
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description As defined by the World Health Organization classification of tumors of hematopoietic and lymphoid tissue, myeloid sarcoma (MS) is a tumor mass of myeloblasts or immature myeloid cells that can arise before, concurrent with, or following acute myeloid leukaemia. We describe a case of secondary leukemia presenting itself as MS of the breast in a patient previously treated for a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
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spelling pubmed-34207532012-08-30 Secondary Leukemia in a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patient Presenting as Myeloid Sarcoma of the Breast Pitini, Vincenzo Arrigo, Carmela Sauta, Maria Grazia Altavilla, Giuseppe Case Rep Hematol Case Report As defined by the World Health Organization classification of tumors of hematopoietic and lymphoid tissue, myeloid sarcoma (MS) is a tumor mass of myeloblasts or immature myeloid cells that can arise before, concurrent with, or following acute myeloid leukaemia. We describe a case of secondary leukemia presenting itself as MS of the breast in a patient previously treated for a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3420753/ /pubmed/22937314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/914613 Text en Copyright © 2011 Vincenzo Pitini 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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Pitini, Vincenzo
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Secondary Leukemia in a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patient Presenting as Myeloid Sarcoma of the Breast
title Secondary Leukemia in a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patient Presenting as Myeloid Sarcoma of the Breast
title_full Secondary Leukemia in a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patient Presenting as Myeloid Sarcoma of the Breast
title_fullStr Secondary Leukemia in a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patient Presenting as Myeloid Sarcoma of the Breast
title_full_unstemmed Secondary Leukemia in a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patient Presenting as Myeloid Sarcoma of the Breast
title_short Secondary Leukemia in a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patient Presenting as Myeloid Sarcoma of the Breast
title_sort secondary leukemia in a non-hodgkin's lymphoma patient presenting as myeloid sarcoma of the breast
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22937314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/914613
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