CNS Involvement in AML Patient Treated with 5-Azacytidine

Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a rare complication of the disease and is associated with poor prognosis. Sometimes the clinical presentation can be unspecific and the diagnosis can be very challenging. Here we report a case of CNS infiltration in a patien...

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Autores principales: Vasilatou, Diamantina, Papageorgiou, Sotirios, Bazani, Efthymia, Prasouli, Athina, Economopoulou, Christina, Roumpakis, Christoforos, Karakitsos, Petros, Dimitriadis, George, Pappa, Vasiliki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4150438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25197583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/937203
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author Vasilatou, Diamantina
Papageorgiou, Sotirios
Bazani, Efthymia
Prasouli, Athina
Economopoulou, Christina
Roumpakis, Christoforos
Karakitsos, Petros
Dimitriadis, George
Pappa, Vasiliki
author_facet Vasilatou, Diamantina
Papageorgiou, Sotirios
Bazani, Efthymia
Prasouli, Athina
Economopoulou, Christina
Roumpakis, Christoforos
Karakitsos, Petros
Dimitriadis, George
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description Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a rare complication of the disease and is associated with poor prognosis. Sometimes the clinical presentation can be unspecific and the diagnosis can be very challenging. Here we report a case of CNS infiltration in a patient suffering from AML who presented with normal complete blood count and altered mental status.
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spelling pubmed-41504382014-09-07 CNS Involvement in AML Patient Treated with 5-Azacytidine Vasilatou, Diamantina Papageorgiou, Sotirios Bazani, Efthymia Prasouli, Athina Economopoulou, Christina Roumpakis, Christoforos Karakitsos, Petros Dimitriadis, George Pappa, Vasiliki Case Rep Hematol Case Report Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a rare complication of the disease and is associated with poor prognosis. Sometimes the clinical presentation can be unspecific and the diagnosis can be very challenging. Here we report a case of CNS infiltration in a patient suffering from AML who presented with normal complete blood count and altered mental status. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4150438/ /pubmed/25197583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/937203 Text en Copyright © 2014 Diamantina Vasilatou 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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Papageorgiou, Sotirios
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Karakitsos, Petros
Dimitriadis, George
Pappa, Vasiliki
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