Granulocytic sarcoma in a patient with blast crisis mimicking a chronic subdural hematoma

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  O'Brien, Caitlin E ^a   Saratsis, Amanda M ^a   Voyadzis, Jean Marc ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMATINIB; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; LYSOZYME; MYELOPEROXIDASE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; BLAST CELL CRISIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; CALVARIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; PLEOCYTOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADULT; BLAST CRISIS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; MALE; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; SARCOMA, MYELOID; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960110036     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.33.1272     Document Type: Article

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