title: CLL: Common Leukemia; Uncommon Presentations.
abstract: We report here a series of ten patients with uncommon presentations and associations of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) not reported hitherto or occasionally reported in literature. The first two cases describe unusual causes of abdominal distension in CLL and unusual sites infiltration by CLL. The next two cases illustrate occurrence of CLL in association with other hematological malignancies. Cases five and six describe unusual infections and their impact on CLL. Cases seven and eight depict associations of rare non-hematological autoimmune conditions with CLL. The last two cases describe transformation at unusual sites. This series of ten cases illustrates how a common leukemia like CLL can present in different forms and how despite so much progress in understanding of this leukemia so little is known of such presentations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Deepesh
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lad
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Pankaj
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Malhotra
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Neelam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Varma
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Manupdesh Singh
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Sachdeva
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Ashim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Radhika
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Amanjit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bal
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Alka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khadwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Gaurav
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Prakash
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Vikas
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Suri
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Savita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumari
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Subhash
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Varma
keywords: Autoimmunity; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Infection; Infiltration; Rare presentation; Transformation