Bicytopenia as a paraneoplastic syndrome for pseudomyxoma peritonei. Hematologic manifestations of a subtle disease

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Ciprian Tomuleasa,1,2 Bobe Petrushev,2 Madalina Vedean,2 Alexandru Irimie,2,3 Florin Zaharie,2 Ana-Maria Rosu,1 Delia Dima,1 Andrei Cucuianu1,2 1Department of Hematology, Ion Chiricuta Oncology Institute, 2Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 3Department of Surgery, Ion Chiricuta Oncology Institute, Cluj Napoca, RomaniaWe have read with great interest the paper of de Oliveira et al, in which the authors report the case of a 76-year-old woman who presented with increased abdominal girth and dyspnea for 2 weeks.1 After extensive investigations, the patient was diagnosed with an abdominal pseudomyxoma peritonei and underwent right oophorectomy, omentectomy, and pseudomyxoma debulking. View original paper by de Oliveira and colleagues