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Diabetes insipidus 9 years after cessation of therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
S P Dibenedetto1, G R Mancuso, P Samperi
1Department of Hematology and Pediatrics, University Hospital, Catania, Italy.
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
A case of a 16-year-old who developed diabetes insipidus (DI) 9 years after cessation of therapy for ALL is reported. Because hereditary and traumatic factors are excluded as a cause of DI in this patient, possible explanations may be leukemic CNS relapse, secondary brain tumor, primitive idiopathic DI, and late sequelae of CNS radiochemotherapy.