Acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting with limping in a young adult

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the rare malignancies in adult. We report a 29‐year‐old man presented with progressive limping followed a chronic back pain. Imaging showed reduced vertebral body height and diffuse lytic skeletal infiltration. Bone marrow aspiration confirmed B‐acute lymphobla...

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Autores principales: Habib, Mhd Baraa, Tannos, Bashar, Abdelrazek, Mohamed, Yassin, Mohamed A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
Materias:
Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8864571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35228876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5426
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Sumario:Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the rare malignancies in adult. We report a 29‐year‐old man presented with progressive limping followed a chronic back pain. Imaging showed reduced vertebral body height and diffuse lytic skeletal infiltration. Bone marrow aspiration confirmed B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma, and the patient was treated with chemotherapy.

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