title: Fulminant leukemic polyradiculoneuropathy in a case of B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia. A clinicopathologic report.
abstract: A 52 year old man with a 10-month history of B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (PLL) died of an apparent acute fulminant polyradiculoneuropathy, a condition generally attributed to paraneoplastic complication. The pathologic examination disclosed diffuse leukemic infiltrations of the peripheral nervous system. It is suggested that this particularly aggressive form of B-cell chronic prolymphocytic leukemia presented a constellation of features that promoted the invasion of the peripheral nervous system by way of the bloodstream and may explain the unusual clinical presentation.
mesh_terms: D001402:B-Lymphocytes; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000473:pathology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology