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Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia presenting with massive ascites: A case report
Abstract
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) is a clonal disorder of the pluripotential stem cell characterized by anaemia, extreme blood granulocytosis and granulocytic immaturity, basophilia, often thrombocytosis, and splenomegaly.Only a few cases of extramedullary manifestation have so far been reported in CML. Wepresent a case of CML in accelerated phase with massive ascites who responded well to combination chemotherapy and oral hydroxyurea.
