Pleural effusion heralds acute leukemic transformation of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1279-1280

  Huang, Chun Ta ^a   Kuo, Ping Hung ^a   Yao, Ming ^a   Tsai, Yi Ju ^a   Yang, Pan Chyr ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; HYDROXYUREA; IDARUBICIN;

ACUTE MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; BLAST TRANSFORMATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; MORTALITY; PALLOR; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTURAL DRAINAGE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SHOCK; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BLAST CELL CRISIS; BONE MARROW; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

BLAST CRISIS; BONE MARROW; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYUREA; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT;

EID: 58149341760     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318189aa39     Document Type: Letter

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