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Noguchi M, Oshimi K. Extensive bone marrow necrosis and symptomatic hypercalcemia in B cell blastic transformation of chronic myeloid leukemia: report of a case and review of the literature. Acta Haematol 2007; 118:111-6. [PMID: 17641550 DOI: 10.1159/000106100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2007] [Accepted: 05/09/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Extensive bone marrow necrosis and symptomatic hypercalcemia have been described independently as rare complications of chronic myeloid leukemia. Here we report a 66-year-old man who developed B cell blastic transformation 10 years after diagnosis of CML in the chronic phase. Extensive bone marrow necrosis and symptomatic hypercalcemia concurrently developed after transformation, with development of disseminated intravascular coagulation and multifocal osteolysis. Most necrotic cells were readily identifiable as blasts. Mediators related to hypercalcemia, including prostaglandin E2, transforming growth factor-alpha and transforming growth factor-beta, were significantly elevated in the serum. As far as we know, this is the first case report of chronic myeloid leukemia concurrently developing bone marrow necrosis and hypercalcemia; this association was not reported in other types of leukemia or bone marrow malignancies.
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- Masaaki Noguchi
- Department of Hematology, Juntendo Urayasu Hospital, Urayasu-shi, Chiba, Japan.
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Nadal E, Cervantes F, Rosiñol L, Talarn C, Montserrat E. Hypercalcemia as the presenting feature of t-cell lymphoid blast crisis of ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma 2001; 41:203-6. [PMID: 11342375 DOI: 10.3109/10428190109057972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Hypercalcemia is a rare complication of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), usually seen in the accelerated or blastic phases of the disease and associated with a poor prognosis. T-cell lymphoid phenotype is also an infrequent finding in the blast crisis (BC) of CML. A CML patient who had hypercalcemia as the presenting feature of a T-cell BC is reported. She was a 78 year-old woman who, at four months of CML diagnosis, developed weakness, bone pain, and mental confusion, with hypercalcemia being subsequently found. Although the peripheral blood and bone marrow were consistent with the chronic phase of CML, mediastinal enlargement, a soft tissue mass adjacent to the iliac bone, and multiple osteolytic lesions were seen. Serum levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and PTH-related peptide were normal, whereas the search for a second neoplasm was negative. The hypercalcemia initially responded to conventional treatment, but it reappeared two weeks later. Coincidentally, a high proportion of blast cells of T-cell origin at the cortical thymocyte stage were observed in the patient's peripheral blood and bone marrow, and she died shortly afterwards.
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- E Nadal
- Institute of Hematology and Oncology, Hematology Department, Postgraduate School of Hematology Farreras Valentí, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain, Villarroel 170, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.
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Howard MR, Ashwell S, Bond LR, Holbrook I. Artefactual serum hyperkalaemia and hypercalcaemia in essential thrombocythaemia. J Clin Pathol 2000; 53:105-9. [PMID: 10767824 PMCID: PMC1763289 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.53.2.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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AIM To investigate possible abnormalities of serum potassium and calcium levels in patients with essential thrombocythaemia and significant thrombocytosis. METHODS 24 cases of essential thrombocythaemia with significant thrombocytosis (platelet count > 700 x 10(9)/litre) had serum potassium and calcium estimations performed at the time of maximum thrombocytosis before treatment, and at the time of low platelet count after treatment with cytoreductive drugs. Selected patients were further investigated with plasma sampling and estimation of ionised calcium and parathyroid hormone. RESULTS At the time of maximum thrombocytosis six patients had serum hyperkalaemia (> 5.5 mmol/litre) and five had serum hypercalcaemia (> 2.6 mmol/litre). Following treatment and reduction of the platelet count, hyperkalaemia resolved in all cases and hypercalcaemia in four of the five cases. Mean serum potassium and calcium concentrations were raised (p < 0.0001) at maximum thrombocytosis compared with the values when the platelet count was low. Serum potassium and calcium values were significantly correlated at all stages. Measurements on plasma consistently corrected the hyperkalaemia but not the hypercalcaemia. Serum hypercalcaemia was associated with raised ionised calcium and normal parathyroid hormone concentrations. CONCLUSIONS Essential thrombocythaemia with significant thrombocytosis is associated with serum hyperkalaemia and hypercalcaemia. The probable mechanism of hypercalcaemia is the secretion of calcium in vitro from an excessive number of abnormally activated platelets. It is thus likely that the hypercalcaemia is an artefact, as is the hyperkalaemia.
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- M R Howard
- Department of Haematology, York District Hospital, York, UK
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Sharma N, Jain S, Kumari S, Varma S. Hypercalcaemia with radiographic abnormalities in chronic myeloid leukaemia. Postgrad Med J 1998; 74:301-3. [PMID: 9713619 PMCID: PMC2360905 DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.74.871.301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- N Sharma
- Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Mandel M, Toren A, Amariglio N, Brok-Simoi F, Berkowicz M, Rosner E, Neumann Y, Rechavi G. Translocation (3;21) in Philadelphia-positive CML blast crisis in a boy with severe skeletal changes. Acta Oncol 1994; 33:205-6. [PMID: 8204278 DOI: 10.3109/02841869409098407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- M Mandel
- Institute of Hematology, Chain Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
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Kubota K, Yanagisawa T, Kurabayashi H, Ono K, Shirakura T, Nagashima K, Yatabe H, Nakazato Y. Hypercalcemia associated with osteolytic lesions in the extramedullary blastic crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia: report of a case. BLUT 1989; 59:458-9. [PMID: 2819252 DOI: 10.1007/bf00349068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A 43-year-old male patient with hypercalcemia and osteolytic lesions complicating chronic myelogenous leukemia is presented. Extramedullary myeloid blastic crisis was diagnosed by the histological finding of the specimen biopsied from a osteolytic lesion in the right femur. As the serum levels of parathyroid hormone, 1,25 (OH)2 vitamin D, prostaglandin E2 and interleukin 1, and the urinary excretion of cyclic AMP were all normal, it was considered that the hypercalcemia was attributed to the bone destruction by the invasion of leukemic myeloblasts.
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- K Kubota
- Department of Medicine, Kusatsu Branch Hospital, Gunma University School of Medicine, Japan
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Thiele J, Hoeppner B, Wienhold S, Schneider G, Fischer R, Zankovich R. Osteoclasts and bone remodeling in chronic myeloproliferative disorders. A histochemical and morphometric study on trephine biopsies in 165 patients. Pathol Res Pract 1989; 184:591-9. [PMID: 2780431 DOI: 10.1016/s0344-0338(89)80164-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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In 165 patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) a morphometric and histochemical study was performed on trephine biopsies of the bone marrow to elucidate osseous remodeling by assessment of trabecular bone area (planimetry) and number of osteoclasts. Osteoclastic elements were identified by the tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase method. In addition to control specimens (n = 20) subtypes of CMPD included chronic myeloid leukemia (CML, n = 65), primary (essential) thrombocythemia (PTH, n = 25), polycythemia vera rubra (P. vera, n = 25) and agnogenic myeloid metaplasia (AMM, n = 50). AMM was discriminated into a so-called early hyperplastic stage without gross myelofibrosis (n = 19) and an overt or advanced stage showing fibro-osteosclerotic changes (n = 31). Total area of trabecular bone and counts for osteoclasts (uni- and multi-nucleated cells as well as a-nuclear cytoplasmic fragments) were not significantly increased in CML, PTH, P. vera and in the initial hypercellular stages of AMM. In contrast to these results, in advanced stages of AMM there was a significant increase in total bone area associated with a high count for all osteoclastic elements and apparently also an increased number of osteoblasts. It is speculated that the marked increase in osteoclastic-osteoblastic elements in late stages of AMM possibly reflects an imbalance of calcitriol (1.25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3) on skeletal homeostasis. This abnormal osseous remodeling may be mediated by the atypical megakaryocytic proliferation in this disorder, which is always a conspicuous feature of bone marrow biopsies.
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- J Thiele
- Institute of Pathology, University of Cologne, FRG
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Collin R, Griffiths H, Polacarz SV, Lawrence AC, Watmore A. Mithramycin therapy for resistant hypercalcaemia in transformed chronic granulocytic leukaemia. CLINICAL AND LABORATORY HAEMATOLOGY 1989; 11:156-9. [PMID: 2527665 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2257.1989.tb00200.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- R Collin
- Department of Haematology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
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Goldberg DM, Brown D. Biochemical tests in the diagnosis, classification, and management of patients with malignant lymphoma and leukemia. Clin Chim Acta 1987; 169:1-76. [PMID: 3315317 DOI: 10.1016/0009-8981(87)90394-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- D M Goldberg
- Department of Biochemistry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Nishikawa S, Rosol TJ, Capen CC. Effects of mithramycin on transplantable canine perianal gland carcinoma (CAC-9) in nude mice: biochemical, histomorphometric, and ultrastructural investigations. Vet Pathol 1986; 23:698-705. [PMID: 2949419 DOI: 10.1177/030098588602300608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A serially transplantable perianal gland carcinoma (CAC-9) was developed in nude mice from a hypercalcemic dog that has been maintained through passage 20. Tumor doubling rate of CAC-9 was 3.1 +/- 0.4 days. Mithramycin (MMC) injected intraperitoneally (8 mg/kg) into nude mice bearing CAC-9 markedly decreased the tumor volume 2 weeks post-injection. MMC returned the elevated serum and urine calcium levels in mice with CAC-9 back to similar values as controls. The few remaining viable tumor cells after MMC were large and had numerous aggregations of intermediate filaments that displaced cytoplasmic organelles. Histomorphometric evaluation of lumbar vertebrae reveled no significant differences in bone resorption of nude mice bearing CAC-9 compared to saline-treated controls. This rapidly growing tumor line in nude mice associated with mild hypercalcemia will be a useful animal model to evaluate combinations of chemotherapy for cancer-associated hypercalcemia.
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Hasselbalch H, Birgens HS, Geisler C, Hansen NE. Hypercalcaemia in the accelerated phase of chronic myelogenous leukaemia: no relationship to the phenotype of the blast cells. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY 1985; 35:333-8. [PMID: 3864233 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.1985.tb01715.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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2 patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia developed hypercalcaemia and severe myelofibrosis in the terminal phases of their disease. Hormonal studies excluded the hypercalcaemia being caused by primary hyperparathyroidism or ectopic parathyroid hormone secretion. Its development was unrelated to the phenotype of the blast cells, as assessed by conventional cytochemistry and immunological surface typing. The finding of increased urinary cAMP excretion in 1 of the patients suggests a circulating, nonparathyroid humoral bone resorbing factor with partial biological PTH-activity to be one of the pathogenetic mechanisms responsible for the occurrence of hypercalcaemia in patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia.
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Mehta AB, Tavares De Castro J, San Miguel JF, Yin JA, O'Brien M, Kearney L, Catovsky D. Osteolytic lesion as the presenting feature of chronic granulocytic leukaemia. CLINICAL AND LABORATORY HAEMATOLOGY 1985; 7:105-12. [PMID: 3862499 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2257.1985.tb00013.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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We describe a woman in whom the first manifestation of chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL) was an osteolytic lesion. Six months later the peripheral blood showed the picture of CGL in blast crisis. Chromosome studies confirmed the diagnosis and immunological and ultrastructural studies demonstrated the presence of two blast populations: basophil blasts and megakaryoblasts.
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Tricot G, Boogaerts MA, Broeckaert-Van Orshoven A, Criel A, Van Hoof A, Van den Berghe H. Hypercalcemia and diffuse osteolytic lesions in the acute phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia. A possible relation between lymphoid transformation and hypercalcemia. Cancer 1983; 52:841-5. [PMID: 6575858 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19830901)52:5<841::aid-cncr2820520516>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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A patient with blastic crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is presented. The acute phase was localized in the lymph nodes and bones, causing severe osteolytic lesions and hypercalcemia. The blast cells were undifferentiated in light microscopy and by histochemical stains. As viewed under electron microscopy, a considerable proportion of the blast cells were of myeloid origin, while immunologic markers and cytogenetics indicated a lymphoid origin. It seems plausible that the patient had a mixed myeloid-lymphoid blast crisis, but that the lymphoid blasts were responsible for the severe osteolytic lesions and the hypercalcemia.
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Bone marrow biopsies are now widely used in the investigation and follow-up of many diseases. Semi-thin sections of 8216 undecalcified biopsies of patients with haematological disorders were studied. Observations were made on the cytopenias and the myelodysplastic syndromes, the acute leukaemias the myeloproliferative disorders, Hodgkin's disease and the malignant lymphomas including multiple myeloma, hairy cell leukaemia and angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy. Bone marrow biopsies are essential for the differential diagnosis of most cytopenias and for the early recognition of fibrosis which most frequently occurred as a consequence of megakaryocytic proliferation in the myeloproliferative disorders. Different patterns of bone marrow involvement were found in the lymphoproliferative disorders and both their type and extent constituted factors of prognostic significance. A survey of the literature is given and the conclusion is drawn that bone marrow biopsies provide indispensible information for the diagnostic evaluation and the follow-up of patients with haematological disorders.
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