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Intestinal Infiltration of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Found on Screening Colonoscopy

B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) is a malignancy of dysregulated lymphocytes in bone marrow and lymphatics. Extra-nodal involvement has been previously cited to affect areas like the lungs, skin, central nervous system, and kidney. Gastrointestinal (GI) involv...

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Autores principales: Aje, Kent T, Abegunde, Ayokunle T, Mirza, Kamran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8824418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35155005
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21037
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description B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) is a malignancy of dysregulated lymphocytes in bone marrow and lymphatics. Extra-nodal involvement has been previously cited to affect areas like the lungs, skin, central nervous system, and kidney. Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement in patients with chronic CLL/SLL is rare. We report a unique case of CLL/SLL found incidentally in a 71-year-old asymptomatic female undergoing a screening colonoscopy. Patients with GI infiltration of CLL/SLL may be asymptomatic like the patient described in this report, or present with symptoms that may resemble inflammatory bowel disease, microscopic colitis, or colon cancer. Therefore, it is important to remain vigilant for the occurrence of other malignancies during the follow-up of CLL/SLL patients.
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spelling pubmed-88244182022-02-11 Intestinal Infiltration of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Found on Screening Colonoscopy Aje, Kent T Abegunde, Ayokunle T Mirza, Kamran Cureus Internal Medicine B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) is a malignancy of dysregulated lymphocytes in bone marrow and lymphatics. Extra-nodal involvement has been previously cited to affect areas like the lungs, skin, central nervous system, and kidney. Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement in patients with chronic CLL/SLL is rare. We report a unique case of CLL/SLL found incidentally in a 71-year-old asymptomatic female undergoing a screening colonoscopy. Patients with GI infiltration of CLL/SLL may be asymptomatic like the patient described in this report, or present with symptoms that may resemble inflammatory bowel disease, microscopic colitis, or colon cancer. Therefore, it is important to remain vigilant for the occurrence of other malignancies during the follow-up of CLL/SLL patients. Cureus 2022-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8824418/ /pubmed/35155005 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21037 Text en Copyright © 2022, Aje 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.
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Intestinal Infiltration of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Found on Screening Colonoscopy
title Intestinal Infiltration of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Found on Screening Colonoscopy
title_full Intestinal Infiltration of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Found on Screening Colonoscopy
title_fullStr Intestinal Infiltration of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Found on Screening Colonoscopy
title_full_unstemmed Intestinal Infiltration of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Found on Screening Colonoscopy
title_short Intestinal Infiltration of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma Found on Screening Colonoscopy
title_sort intestinal infiltration of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma found on screening colonoscopy
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8824418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35155005
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21037
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