Gastroenterology Research and Practice (Jan 2008)

Colonic Involvement in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia

  • P. E. T. Arkkila,
  • H. Nuutinen,
  • F. Ebeling,
  • E. Elonen,
  • P. Kärkkäinen,
  • M.-L. Karjalainen-Lindsberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/742146
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2008

Abstract

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Various gastrointestinal infiltrations have been described in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Here, we report a 69-year-old man with CLL and anaemia in whom the macroscopic finding of colonoscopy was normal, but the histological specimens revealed lymphocytic leukemia in ileum and in colon. If a CLL patient has any symptoms suggesting a possible GI manifestation of the haematologic disease or anaemia not explained by bone marrow infiltration or hemolysis, the diagnostic evaluation should include endoscopies with adequate biopsies.