Chylothorax due to leukemic infiltration in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 2015

Hakan Tanrıverdi, and Fırat Uygur, and Osman Korcan Tilkan, and Mertol Gökçe, and Meltem Tor
Bülent Ecevit University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zonguldak, Turkey.

Chylothorax is characterized by accumalation of milky fluid called chyle into the plural space. Most common causes of cyhlothorax are trauma or surgery of thoracic duct and malignancies. Among the malignancies lymphoma is responsible approximately 70% of cyhlothorax but other lymphocytic tumors including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is rarely reported. A 71 years old man with known CLL, presented with dispnea and pleural effusion and diagnosed cyhlothorax due to leukemic infiltration that confirmed by immuno flow cytometric analyse.

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