Paraneoplastic leukemoid reaction in a patient with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung
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Leukemoid reaction in a patient with adenocarcinoma of the lung: a case report
INTRODUCTION Lung cancers are characterized by high incidence, prevalence and mortality. They may be associated with numerous paraneoplastic syndromes. Mild leukocytosis is not rare. The case described here, however, is of a female patient with adenocarcinoma of the lung who developed extreme leukocytosis at over 140,000 cells/μL. Descriptions of such leukemic forms of lung cancer are few and f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Case Reports
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2050-0904,2050-0904
DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.2536