Acute suppurative thyroiditis complicating second allogeneic transplant for juvenile CMML

Poelman, M.; Benoit, Y.; Laureys, G.; Craen, M.; Leroy, J.

Bone Marrow Transplantation 10(6): 547-548

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0268-3369
PMID: 1490204
Document Number: 392904
We describe here a 3-year-old boy with juvenile chronic myelomonocytic leukemia and monosomy 7 who underwent a second HLA matched bone marrow transplant from his sister. He developed hypothyroidism due to acute suppurative thyroiditis in the recovery phase of BMT. This is an extremely rare complication of BMT.

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