Response of agranulocytosis to thymectomy in a patient with thymoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia
β Scribed by Weir, Alva B. ;Dow, Lois W.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 343 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-1532
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β¦ Synopsis
A patient with chronic lymphocytic leuke-Both autologous and heterologous granulomia presented with recurrent episodes of cyte macrophage colony growth were severe neutropenia. This neutropenia was clearly inhibited by the patient's serum. This initially responsive to prednisone but evenis the first reported case of severe granutually became refractory. A spindle-cell thy-locytopenia associated with a thymoma that moma was diagnosed and resected with dra-seemed to be reversed following thy-' matic improvement in his granulocytopenia. mectomy.
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From the Southern California Permanente Medical Group (M.A.T., A.R.K.) and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA School of Medicine (A.R.K., R. J.S .), Los Angeles .
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