Hypercalcemia as the Initial Presentation of Acute T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma

• Published in: Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) Vol. 14; no. 3; p. e23705
• Main Author: Ramachandran, Vignesh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Springer Nature B.V 31.03.2022; Cureus
• Subjects: Abdomen; Blood cancer; Blood tests; Case reports; Family/General Practice; Health care access; Hypercalcemia; Infections; Internal Medicine; Laboratories; Leukemia; Lymphoma; Metabolism; Pathology; Patients; Peptides; Primary care; New York; United States > US; hypercalcemia; adult t-cell leukemia/lymphoma; clinical pathology; general internal medicine; inpatient care; pathophysiology

Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) is a T-cell malignancy that generally presents with widespread involvement of lymph nodes, peripheral blood, and/or skin. It is an uncommon malignancy linked to the human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-1). Herein, we present a case of ATLL that was diagnosed after...