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- Title
Isolated Richter's transformation in central nervous system in a patient with refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
- Authors
Cetıntepe, Tugba; Kobak, Fusun Gedız; Bener, Sadi; Cetintepe, Tugba
- Abstract
A 67-year-old woman was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and chemotherapy was started. Due to epileptic seizure and left hemiplegia that developed on the twenty first day of the treatment, cranial magnetic resonance imaging was performed and a markedly increased mass of a diameter of 5 cm in the right frontal lobe was seen. Diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma was concluded at diagnostic brain biopsy. Repeated bone marrow biopsy implemented simultaneously, was reported as CLL. Based on the diagnosis of isolated Richter transformation in the CNS secondary to CLL, R-IDARAM (Rituximab, idarubicin, dexamethasone,cytrabine, methotrexate) treatment was initiated. The patient died on the eighteenth day of treatment due to neutropenic fever and septicemia caused by pulmonary infection.
- Subjects
RICHTER syndrome; CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia; DIFFUSE large B-cell lymphomas; CENTRAL nervous system; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; ECTOPIC pregnancy; CENTRAL nervous system diseases; NEOPLASTIC cell transformation; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Indian Journal of Cancer, 2021, Vol 58, Issue 3, p428
- ISSN
0019-509X
- Publication type
case study
- DOI
10.4103/ijc.IJC_31_19