Polyclonal reactive peripheral blood plasmacytosis mimicking plasma cell leukemia in a patient with staphylococcal sepsis [3]

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 379-380

  Shtalrid, Mordechai ^a   Shvidel, Lev ^a   Vorst, Eljakim ^a  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C.; Multiple myeloma; Plasmacythemia; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LETTER; MALE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PLASMA CELL; PLASMA CELL LEUKEMIA; PLASMACYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, PLASMACYTIC; LEUKEMOID REACTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; PLASMA CELLS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0037300621     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819021000029713     Document Type: Letter

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