✦ LIBER ✦
Necrotizing granulomatous splenitis complicating leukemia in childhood
✍ Scribed by David A. Walker; Alec J. Howat; Rosemary S. Shannon; D. Clive Bouch; John S. Lilleyman
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 448 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
Two children are described with acute leukemia in remission who both developed a swinging pyrexia and pathologically identical splenic necrotizing granulomata. No organisms were seen in, or isolated from, either spleen. After splenectomy, systemic symptoms persisted and did not resolve until steroids were given. The etiology of this syndrome remains unknown.