Colonic Involvement in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia

نویسندگان

  • P. E. T. Arkkila
  • H. Nuutinen
  • F. Ebeling
  • E. Elonen
  • P. Kärkkäinen
  • M.-L. Karjalainen-Lindsberg
چکیده

Various gastrointestinal infiltrations have been described in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Here, we report a 69-year-old man with CLL and anaemia in whom the macroscopic finding of colonoscopy was normal, but the histological specimens revealed lymphocytic leukemia in ileum and in colon. If a CLL patient has any symptoms suggesting a possible GI manifestation of the haematologic disease or anaemia not explained by bone marrow infiltration or hemolysis, the diagnostic evaluation should include endoscopies with adequate biopsies.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Gastroenterology Research and Practice

دوره 2008  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008