Journal of The Showa Medical Association
Online ISSN : 2185-0976
Print ISSN : 0037-4342
ISSN-L : 0037-4342
A CASE OF MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA WITH PNEUMOTHORAX DUE TO THE PERFORATION OF GIANT CAVITY AND A RISE OF COLD AGGLUTININ TITER
Yoji ASANOKenichiro HINOKazuaki YOSHIDAHiroshi HASEGAWATakechiro TAKENAKANobuyoshi TSURUOKAMichiyuki SHIMIZUTakuro OKADAFumio SHINOHARAKazuo KAZAMAKouji TASHIRO
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1980 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 261-266

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The patient was a 58-year-old woman. She was admitted to our hospital because of easy fatigue and hypertrophied gingival gums. Leukocyte count was 56, 200 per cmm. Seventy three percent of leukemic cells of monocytic series were found in peripheral blood and 89 percent in bone marrow. A diagnosis of acute monocytic leukemia was made. The patient was resistant to the combined chemotherapy with daunorubicin, cytosinearabinoside and prednisolone and the remission was not obtained through-out the clinical course.
Giant aspergilloma caused by secondary infection of aspergillus in the tuberculotic lesion produced a giant cavity, penetrated the wall of the lung and caused preumothorax. The patient died of difficulty of breathing.
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