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A Complication of Lymphoma

Biagio Azzarelli, MD; Abdul-Latif Itani, MD; Phillip T. Catanzaro, MD, PhD

Arch Neurol. 1980;37(2):126-127.

Abstract
• A patient with malignant lymphoma died as the result of cerebral phlebothrombosis. The presence of "leukostasis" restricted to the CNS associated with venous necrosis is a possible mechanism leading to venous thrombosis.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Mental Hygiene, Central Anatomic Laboratory (Dr Azzarelli), and the Departments of Neuropathology (Dr Azzarelli) and Neurosurgery (Dr Itani), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, and the Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University (Dr Catanzaro), Cleveland, Dr Azzarelli is now at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 12, 1978.

Reprint requests to Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), Indiana University School of Medicine, 1100 W Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN 46223 (Dr Azzarelli).

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