The paper presents a patient with eleven-years history of polycythemia vera, who developed a second malignant disorder: B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Patient had also an intracranial tumor with secondary neurological complications. Because of the complex pathology, the patient prognostic was unfavorable.
Dorcioman B, Bacârea A, Oltean G, Demian S, Cândea M. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia developing in a patient with polycythemia vera. Case report. Rev Romana Med Lab. 2008;11(2):47-51