Extreme leucocytocis and splenomegaly in metastasised melanoma

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 164-167

  de Wolff, J F ^a   Planken, E V ^a   den Ottolander, G J ^b  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AUTACOID; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; STEROID;

ADULT; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COUGHING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; MEDIATOR RELEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; PROGNOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; AGED; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 4143100245     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Reding MT, Hibbs JR, Morrison VA, Swaim WR, Filice GA. Diagnosis and outcome of 100 consecutive patients with extreme granulocytic leukocytosis. Am J Med 1998;104(1):12-6.
2. Kurzrock R, Kantarjian HM, Druker BJ, Talpaz M. Philadelphia chromosome-positive leukemias: from basic mechanisms to molecular therapeutics. Ann Intern Med 2003;138:819-30.
3. Hintzen RQ, Voormolen J, Sonneveld P, Duinen SG van. Glioblastoma causing granulocytosis by secretion of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor. Neurology 2000;54:259-61.
4. Horii A, Shimamura K, Honjo Y, et al. Granulocyte colony stimulating factor-producing tongue carcinoma. Head Neck 1997;19:351-6.
5. Kasuga I, Ishizuka S, Minemura K, Utsumi K, Serizawa H, Ohyashiki K. Malignant pleural mesothelioma produces functional granulocyte-colony stimulating factor. Chest 2001;119:981-3.
6. Katoh Y, Nakamura M, Ohnishi Y, Shimamura K, Ueyama Y, Tamaoki N. Autonomous production of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in tumor xenografts associated with leukocytosis. Br J Cancer 1993;68:715-9.
7. Lee MY, Kaushansky K, Judkins SA, Lottsfeldt JL, Waheed A, Shadduck RK. Mechanisms of tumor-induced neutrophilia: constitutive production of colony-stimulating factors and their synergistic actions. Blood 1989;74:115-22.
8. Lilly MB, Devlin PE, Devlin JJ, Rado TA. Production of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor by a human melanoma cell line. Exp Hematol 1987;15:966-71.
9. Ciotti R, Imro A, Scudeletti M, et al. MEL-P, a GM-CSF-producing human melanoma cell line. Melanoma Res 1996;6:203-13.
10. Safarians S, Rivera SP, Sternlicht MD, Naeim F, Barsky SH. Ectopic G-CSF expression in human melanoma lines marks a trans-dominant pathway of tumor progression. Am J Pathol 1997;150:949-62.
11. Carey RW, Kunz VS. Leukocytosis due to adrenal metastases from malignant melanoma: reversal after bilateral adrenalectomy with long-term survival. Am J Hematol 1988;27:228-9.
12. Oakley SP, Garsia RJ, Coates AS. Eosinophilic leukaemoid reaction and interleukin-5 in metastatic melanoma. Med J Aust 1998;169:501.
13. Bussolino F, Wang JM, Defillippi P, et al. Granulocyte- and granulocyte-macrophage-colony stimulating factors induce human endothelial cells to migrate and proliferate. Nature 1989;337:471-3.
14. Weitzman SA, Weitberg AB, Clark EP, Stossel TP. Phagocytes as carcinogens: malignant transformation produced by human neutrophils. Science 1985;227:1231-3.
15. Gay JC, Athens JW. In: Lee GR, Foerster J, Lukens J, Parashevas F, Greer JP, Rodgers GM (eds). Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1998:1852.