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Leukemic coronary artery occlusion in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
M Perkkiö1, T Tikanoja, S Marin
1Department of Pediatrics, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland.
Pediatric Cardiology
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
A 2-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia initially experienced pericardial effusion during the maintenance treatment due to leukemic infiltration of the pericardium and cardiac muscle. He subsequently died suddenly owing to leukemic occlusion of the left coronary artery.