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Case Reports
. 2014 Mar;30(1):59-61.
doi: 10.1007/s12288-012-0196-1. Epub 2012 Oct 9.

Atypical mycobacterial infection in hairy cell leukemia treated with cladribine

Chandramohan Ramasamy  1 , Biswajit Dubashi  2 , J Sree Rekha  3 , Debdatta Basu  3 , Ankit Jain  2 , Tarun Kumar Dutta  1
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Case Reports

Atypical mycobacterial infection in hairy cell leukemia treated with cladribine

Chandramohan Ramasamy et al. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus. 2014 Mar.

Abstract

We report a case of hairy cell leukemia who improved after cladribine but succumbed to disseminated atypical mycobacterial infection 2 months after completing cladribine.

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Chest X-ray showing pulmonary infiltrates
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Post mortem lung biopsy (10,156/10)—showing long slender bacilli in AFS (×1,000)
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