[Extramedullary blastic transformation in chronic granulocytic leukemia]

Srp Arh Celok Lek. 1993 Jan-Feb;121(1-2):48-9.
[Article in Serbian]

Abstract

A patient with Ph1(Philadelphia chromosome) positive chronic granulocytic leukemia and extramedullary blast transformation (crisis) in lymph nodes of the neck and axillae which appeared after a 4-year 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 / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / genetics
  • Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / pathology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Philadelphia Chromosome