When abdominal pain knocks the door: an unusual presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

A 67-year-old man presented non-specific abdominal pain. Polypoid mass at appendiceal orifice in the cecum was found on endoscopic investigation without appendicitis sign. Histopathology elucidated underlying mucosal infiltration that was chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This is an isolated and unusual...

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Autores principales: Ozer Etik, Digdem, Suna, Nuretdin, Borcek, Pelin, Hilmioglu, Fatih
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6544427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31198573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omz037
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author Ozer Etik, Digdem
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description A 67-year-old man presented non-specific abdominal pain. Polypoid mass at appendiceal orifice in the cecum was found on endoscopic investigation without appendicitis sign. Histopathology elucidated underlying mucosal infiltration that was chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This is an isolated and unusual gastrointestinal involvement of hematologic disorder in an older patient.
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spelling pubmed-65444272019-06-13 When abdominal pain knocks the door: an unusual presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia Ozer Etik, Digdem Suna, Nuretdin Borcek, Pelin Hilmioglu, Fatih Oxf Med Case Reports Case Report A 67-year-old man presented non-specific abdominal pain. Polypoid mass at appendiceal orifice in the cecum was found on endoscopic investigation without appendicitis sign. Histopathology elucidated underlying mucosal infiltration that was chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This is an isolated and unusual gastrointestinal involvement of hematologic disorder in an older patient. Oxford University Press 2019-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6544427/ /pubmed/31198573 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omz037 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_full When abdominal pain knocks the door: an unusual presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
title_fullStr When abdominal pain knocks the door: an unusual presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
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title_short When abdominal pain knocks the door: an unusual presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
title_sort when abdominal pain knocks the door: an unusual presentation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omz037
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