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Herpes Simplex lymphadenitis in CLL

Author: Girish Venkataraman, MD, MBBS, 11/07/2015
Category: Lymph Node and Spleen: Reactive/infectious > Infectious processes > Herpes Simplex lymphadenitis
Published Date: 11/16/2015

Treated CLL patient with enlarging lymph node demonstrating extenstive HSV lymphadenitis and CLL/SLL in the same node. Fludarabine treated patients are more likely to develop such HSV infections which sometime clinically mimic transformation in CLL.