An Atypical Initial Presentation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia with Central Nervous System and Lymph Node Blast Crises

We describe the case of a young man with therapy-naive chronic myeloid leukemia who did not initially have any peripheral blood or bone marrow excess blasts but presented with extramedullary myeloid blast crises involving the central nervous system and multiple lymph nodes. Conventional cytogenetic...

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Main Authors: Khadega A. Abuelgasim, Saeed Alshieban, Nada A. Almubayi, Ayman Alhejazi, Abdulrahman R. Jazieh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2016-08-01
Series:Case Reports in Oncology
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Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/447711