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Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 1976;5(2): 237-242. |
| A Case of Intracranial Chloroma. |
| Young Koo Rhee, Jeong Wha Chu, Ki Chan Lee, Dong Whee Jun, Jung Keun Suh |
| Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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Clinical and pathological manifestation of leukemic involvement of the central nervous system have been known from any years. Infiltration and enlargement of organ is quite common in acute leukemia ; however, the formation of solid tumor masses is very rare. Most of the described tumor occur predominantly around the orbits or arise from bones, with only a few cases of soft tissue tumors reported. A case of chloroma is reported, in which a large solid tumor of immature granulocytic cells was over the cerebral convexity compressing the brain diffusely on the right and not preceded by myelogenic leukemia. |
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