Coexistence of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and polycythemia vera: a case report and review of the literature.

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Coexistence of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and polycythemia vera: a case report and review of the literature.

Ann Saudi Med. 2016 Sep-Oct;36(5):364-366

Authors: Korkmaz S, Kulakoglu S, Gorkem H, Aygun B, Cetinkaya A

Abstract
Polycythemia vera is a Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative neoplasm. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a monoclonal expansion of a CD5+ CD19+ B lymphocytes. Chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms may coexist with indolent B-cell malignant lymphomas of various types. The association of chronic lymphocytic leukemia with polycythemia vera is a rare event with only a few cases of coexistence ever reported. We report a 56-year-old man in whom these two disorders were diagnosed concomitantly. Possible etiopathogenic relationships between both disorders are discussed in this case report.
SIMILAR CASES PUBLISHED: 6.

PMID: 27710990 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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