Advanced chronic lymphoid leukemia with severe bronchopneumonia: an Autopsy Case Report

• Main Authors: Felipe Gomes Campos Amaral (Author), Luiz Guilherme Cernaglia Aureliano Lima (Author), Veruska Menegatti Anastacio Hatanaka (Author), Sheila Aparecida Coelho Siqueira (Author), Amaro Nunes Duarte-Neto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a lymphoid neoplasia with the B immunophenotype, which corresponds to the leukemic form of lymphocytic lymphoma. This entity is characterized, in most cases, by immunosuppression due to impaired function of immune cells, hypogammaglobulinemia, bone marrow infilt...