[Extramedullary blast transformation in chronic granulocytic leukemia]

Srp Arh Celok Lek. 1992 Sep-Oct;120(9-10):304-5.
[Article in Serbian]

Abstract

A patient with Ph1(Philadelphia chromosome) positive chronic granulocytic leukemia and extramedullary blast transformation (crisis) in lymph nodes of neck and axillae which appeared after 4-year of treatment with busulfan is presented. Biopsy of lymph node and histopathological examination showed lymphoblastic infiltration. The patient was treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy with protocol COP. He survived 7 months and expired due to renal insufficiency.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Blast Crisis*
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / genetics
  • Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / pathology*
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Philadelphia Chromosome