A 75-Year-Old Woman With Thoracic Spinal Cord Compression and Chloroma (granulocytic sarcoma)
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Spinal granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) presenting as acute cord compression in a nonleukemic patient.
The case of a previously healthy 24-year-old man diagnosed with extradural thoracic granulocytic sarcoma with no evidence of bone marrow or other hematological involvement is described. The tumor was removed totally by microsurgery. The histopathological examination was consistent with granulocytic sarcoma. Granulocytic sarcomas are most commonly found in the context of an acute myelogenous leu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seminars in Oncology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0093-7754
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2012.10.002