In:
Pediatric Blood & Cancer, Wiley, Vol. 61, No. 6 ( 2014-06), p. 1107-1110
Kurzfassung:
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) is a disease of older adults. Pediatric CLL/SLL is vanishingly rare in the literature. We present a case of CLL/SLL diagnosed in a 17‐year‐old male. The pathologic findings of this case were those of classic CLL/SLL with an ATM deletion, a characteristic genetic abnormality in CLL/SLL. Management guidelines for CLL/SLL are tailored to older adults making determination of the optimal therapy for this patient a unique challenge. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2014;61:1107–1110. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1545-5009
,
1545-5017
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Wiley
Publikationsdatum:
2014
ZDB Id:
2130978-4