Case 10-2003: A 72-year-old man with rapidly progressive leukemia, rash, and multiorgan failure

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1267-1275

  Foss, Francine M ^a   Aquino, Suzanne L ^b   Ferry, Judith A ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HYPERCALCEMIA; LEUKEMIA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; T CELL LEUKEMIA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; KIDNEY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGED; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXANTHEMA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, ACUTE, HTLV-I-ASSOCIATED; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0037468946     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030003     Document Type: Article

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