TY - JOUR
TI - Concurrent pleural infiltration by chronic lymphocytic leukemia and
adenocarcinoma of unknown primary site diagnosed by effusion cytology
AU - Vrettos, Ioannis
AU - Kamposioras, Konstantinos
AU - Peridis, Stamatios
AU - and Aninos, Dionisios
AU - Kazika, Stella
AU - Spathis, Aris and
AU - Karakitsos, Petros
AU - Papadopoulos, Angelos
JO - Diagnostic Cytopathology
PY - 2014
VL - 42
TODO - 2
SP - 151-155
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
SN - 8755-1039, 1097-0339
TODO - 10.1002/dc.22889
TODO - B-CLL; unknown primary; synchronous; pleural effusion; adenocarcinoma
TODO - Synchronous malignancies in a pleural effusion are rare. A case of
concurrent pleural infiltration by adenocarcinoma of unknown primary
site and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is presented in this case
study, which was diagnosed by effusion cytology. Pleural effusion is not
an uncommon complication in patients with B-CLL. Even in a pleural
effusion rich in monoclonal lymphocytes, the presence of a second cancer
must be excluded because this can be the main cause of mortality. The
role of cytology in such cases is of paramount importance. Diagn.
Cytopathol. 2014;42:151-155. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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