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CLL: Common Leukemia; Uncommon Presentations

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We report here a series of ten patients with uncommon presentations and associations of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) not reported hitherto or occasionally reported in literature. The first two cases describe unusual causes of abdominal distension in CLL and unusual sites infiltration by CLL. The next two cases illustrate occurrence of CLL in association with other hematological malignancies. Cases five and six describe unusual infections and their impact on CLL. Cases seven and eight depict associations of rare non-hematological autoimmune conditions with CLL. The last two cases describe transformation at unusual sites. This series of ten cases illustrates how a common leukemia like CLL can present in different forms and how despite so much progress in understanding of this leukemia so little is known of such presentations.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Deepesh Lad, Pankaj Malhotra, Alka Khadwal, Gaurav Prakash, Vikas Suri, Savita Kumari, Sanjay Jain & Subhash Varma

  2. Department of Hematology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Neelam Varma & Manupdesh Singh Sachdeva

  3. Department of Pathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Ashim Das & Amanjit Bal

  4. Department of Cytology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Radhika Srinivasan

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Deepesh Lad, Pankaj Malhotra, Neelam Varma, Manupdesh Singh Sachdeva, Ashim Das, Radhika Srinivasan, Amanjit Bal, Alka Khadwal, Gaurav Prakash, Vikas Suri, Savita Kumari, Sanjay Jain and Subhash Varma have contributed equally to the manuscript.

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Lad, D., Malhotra, P., Varma, N. et al. CLL: Common Leukemia; Uncommon Presentations. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus 32, 268–275 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12288-014-0488-8

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