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Descriptor English: Leukostasis
Descriptor Spanish: Leucostasis
Descriptor leucostasis
Entry term(s) síndrome leucostásico
Scope note: Agregación y adherencia leucocitaria intravascular anormal que se observa a menudo en pacientes leucémicos. El cerebro y los pulmones son los órganos más comúnmente afectados. Este síndrome agudo requiere modalidades citorreductivas agresivas entre las que se encuentran la quimioterapia y/o leucoforesis. Se diferencia de la INFILTRACIÓN LEUCÉMICA en que esta es un proceso neoplásico en el que las células leucémicas invaden los órganos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Leucostasia
Descriptor French: Leucostase
Entry term(s): Leukostases
Leukostasis Syndrome
Leukostasis Syndromes
Syndrome, Leukostasis
Syndromes, Leukostasis
Tree number(s): C15.378.553.560
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018921
Scope note: Abnormal intravascular leukocyte aggregation and clumping often seen in leukemia patients. The brain and lungs are the two most commonly affected organs. This acute syndrome requires aggressive cytoreductive modalities including chemotherapy and/or leukophoresis. It is differentiated from LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION which is a neoplastic process where leukemic cells invade organs.
Annotation: note category: abnorm intravasc leukocyte aggreg
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 96
History Note: 96
DeCS ID: 32700
Unique ID: D018921
NLM Classification: WH 200
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Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/01/06
Leukostasis - Preferred
Concept UI M0028290
Scope note Abnormal intravascular leukocyte aggregation and clumping often seen in leukemia patients. The brain and lungs are the two most commonly affected organs. This acute syndrome requires aggressive cytoreductive modalities including chemotherapy and/or leukophoresis. It is differentiated from LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION which is a neoplastic process where leukemic cells invade organs.
Preferred term Leukostasis
Entry term(s) Leukostases
Leukostasis Syndrome
Leukostasis Syndromes
Syndrome, Leukostasis
Syndromes, Leukostasis



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