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Shwachman-Diamond syndrome with late-onset neutropenia and fatal acute myeloid leukaemia without maturation: a case report.
European journal of haematology - 1 Nov 2003
Lesesve Jean-François, Dugué Franck, Grégoire Marie-Josée, Witz Francis, Dror Yigal
Abstract excerpt
We report on a male patient affected by Shwachman Diamond syndrome (SDS) who presented an unusual delayed neutropenia and then developed a poorly differentiated acute myeloid leukaemia (M0-AML) with trilineage myelodysplasia in adulthood. Conventional cytogenetics revealed complex karyotypic changes (monosomies 20, 21, 22, additional 15p). The patient was treated with conventional chemotherapy but never reached...
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