TY - JOUR
T1 - Tumor fever, paraneoplastic leukocytosis and necrotic liver metastases
T2 - A triad worth remembering
AU - Dasanu, Constantin A.
AU - Trikudanathan, Guru
AU - Bandyopadhyay, Tapas
AU - Lahiri, Bimalin
AU - Homsi, Samer
AU - Clark, Bernard A.
PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - Arriving at the diagnosis of tumor fever may prove difficult for the clinician and should always be based upon investigations that exclude other potential causes of fever. Timely recognition of this entity is essential for the effective delivery of care to cancer patients. In solid malignancies, tumor fever is commonly associated with rapidly progressive meta-static disease and alimited survival. Liver metastases are present in many of these patients and some of them may display significant systemic inflammation. We report two unique patients with adenocarcinoma of the lung associated with tumor fever, necrotic liver metastases and granulocyte-colonystimulating factor (G-CSF) driven leukocytosis.
AB - Arriving at the diagnosis of tumor fever may prove difficult for the clinician and should always be based upon investigations that exclude other potential causes of fever. Timely recognition of this entity is essential for the effective delivery of care to cancer patients. In solid malignancies, tumor fever is commonly associated with rapidly progressive meta-static disease and alimited survival. Liver metastases are present in many of these patients and some of them may display significant systemic inflammation. We report two unique patients with adenocarcinoma of the lung associated with tumor fever, necrotic liver metastases and granulocyte-colonystimulating factor (G-CSF) driven leukocytosis.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 20806616
AN - SCOPUS:77955680772
SN - 0010-6178
VL - 74
SP - 389
EP - 391
JO - Connecticut medicine
JF - Connecticut medicine
IS - 7
ER -
