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AI InsightIn this article, we presented a 18 month-old girl presented with abdominal distension and bilateral nephromegaly who was diagnosed with pre-B cell B-cell precursor acute lymphob- lastic leukemia, and emphasized that lymphoblastic infiltra- tion should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with unexplained nephromegaly
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Abstract
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia ALL is the most common type of cancer in childhood. Renal involvement may occur in 8-16% of patients without clinical manifestation and is detected in the majority of these cases renal involvement is detected after the patient received diagnosis of leukemia.. In this article, we presented a 18 month-old girl presented with abdominal distension and bilateral nephromegaly who was diagnosed with pre-B cell B-cell precursor acute lymphob- lastic leukemia, and emphasized that lymphoblastic infiltra- tion should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with unexplained nephromegaly
Özet
Akut lenfoblastik lösemi ALL çocukluk çağının en sık görülen kanseridir. Hastaların %8-16’sında klinik bulgu vermeyen böbrek tutulumu görülebilir, bunların çoğunda hasta lösemi tanısı aldıktan sonra böbrek tutulumu sapta- nır. Bu makalede karında şişkinlik nedeniyle başvuran, bilateral nefromegalisi olan ve tetkiklerin sonucunda pre B hücreli ALL tanısı alan 18 aylık vaka sunularak nefromega- linin ayırıcı tanısında lösemik infiltrasyonun önemi vurgu- landı