Leucemia de células natural killer: Caso clínico

Natural killer leukemia is a rare and highly aggressive neoplasm, is more common in young male patients and has a very poor prognosis, with a median survival of few weeks. We report a 17 years old male patient who developed, after an acute upper respiratory disease, a rapidly multiorganic failure with pancytopenia. Bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy showed an acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The immunophenotype and immunohistochemistry revealed a natural killer acute leukemia. The disease progressed rapidly and the patient died shortly after the diagnosis

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Main Authors: Guerrero A,Mario, Lira V,Pablo, Bertin C,Pablo, Galleguillos V,Mauricio, Ocqueteau T,Mauricio
Format: Digital revista
Language:Spanish / Castilian
Published: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2005
Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872005000400010
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