PRIMARY ENDOTHELIOMA OF THE PLEURA: REPORT OF A CASE IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA
Authors: T S EVANS, M Y SWIRSKY, H M CHERNOFF
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1946)

Case Reports1 February 1946PRIMARY ENDOTHELIOMA OF THE PLEURA: REPORT OF A CASE IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIATHEODORE S. EVANS, M.D., F.A.C.P., MORGAN Y. SWIRSKY, M.D., HYMAN M. CHERNOFF, M.D.THEODORE S. EVANS, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, MORGAN Y. SWIRSKY, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, HYMAN M. CHERNOFF, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-24-2-262 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe etiology of leukemia at the present time is still not satisfactorily explained. Factors such as infection, trauma, drugs, toxins, and exposure to radioactive substances have been advanced as possible causes, and these have been thoroughly reviewed by Forkner.1More intriguing is the suggested relationship of leukemia to neoplastic diseases, and there is much evidence to support the classification of leukemias as a variety of neoplasia. This view has been championed chiefly by Babes,2Mallory,3Weber and Bode,4and others. Since 1878 the coexistence of the leukemias with other forms of neoplasia has been noted repeatedly by various investigators and...Bibliography1. FORKNER CE: Leukemia and allied disorders, 1938, The Macmillan Company, New York. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. BABES : Neoplastische Leukämia, Centralbl. f. allg. Path. u. path. Anat., 1902, xiii, 695. Google Scholar3. MALLORY FB: The principles of pathologic histology, 1914, W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia. Google Scholar4. WEBERBODE FPOB: Polycythemia, erythrocytosis and erythremia, 1929, H. K. 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