Authors: Lazar Popovic Darjana Jovanovic Dragana Petrovic Zoran Nikin Gorana MatovinaBrko Jasna Trifunovic Ivana KolarovBjelobrk
Publish Date: 2014/08/22
Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 422-424
Abstract
Association between chronic lymphocytic leukemia and other malignancies has been known for a long time This epidemiological phenomenon is explained by immunosuppression caused by disease itself or by the applied therapy Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare malignant tumor of the skin of neuroendocrine origin diagnosed almost exclusively in immunocompromised host We presented an unique case of coexisting infiltration of chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells within primary cutaneous Merkel cell carcinoma and metastatic lymph node in young HIVnegative female patient
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