Female Genital Tract Involvement in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Rare Case Report
Published: December 1, 2016 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2016/23832.9099
Vikram Narang, Amit Dhiman, Bhavna Garg, Neena Sood
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
3. Professor, Department of Pathology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
4. Professor and Head, Department of Pathology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Vikram Narang,
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital,
Ludhiana-141001, Punjab, India.
E-mail: drvikramnarang@yahoo.com
Female Genital Tract (FGT) involvement with hematologic neoplasms is uncommon and the hematologic malignancies which involve the female genital organs are usually non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Involvement of the uterus and cervix with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) is extremely rare, and ovarian involvement is even rarer. We report the case of a young lady who presented with tubo-ovarian mass, excessive post-operative bleeding (post-total abdominal hystrerctomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy) and was diagnosed to have ALL with blood and tissue involvement by histopathology and flow cytometry.
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