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245. What is Ball’s disease ?

Intracerebral leukocytostasis, a potentially fatal complication of acute leukemia (especially AML) when peripheral blast cell count>100,000/uL; leukemic cells capable of invading through endothelium and causing hemorrhage into brain. Condition not generally seen with CLLor CML.

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