HAIRY LEUKEMIC-CELL INFLUX INTO THE CEREBROSPINAL-FLUID SECONDARY TO ENCEPHALOMYELITIS

Authors
WIERZBICKI AS LUXTON R MCLEAN BN GILOIS C NORMAN PM THOMPSON EJ
Citation
As. Wierzbicki et al., HAIRY LEUKEMIC-CELL INFLUX INTO THE CEREBROSPINAL-FLUID SECONDARY TO ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, Postgraduate medical journal, 69(814), 1993, pp. 651-653
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Postgraduate medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00325473
Volume
69
Issue
814
Year of publication
1993
Pages
651 - 653
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5473(1993)69:814<651:HLIITC>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A case report of a 53 year old male with hairy cell leukaemia is prese nted in whom encephalomyelitis caused by toxoplasmosis resulted in an influx of hairy cells into the cerebrospinal fluid following disruptio n of the blood-brain barrier. These cells subsequently disappeared as the barrier reformed. It is suggested that the presence of hairy cells in the cerebrospinal fluid is a secondary self-limiting phenomenon.