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An unusual pathological finding of chronic lymphocitic leukemia and adenocarcinoma of the prostate after transurethral resection for complete urinary retention: case report

Riccardo Ballario email, Paolo Beltrami email, Stefano Cavalleri email, Lorenzo Ruggera email, Maria Grazia Zorzi email and Walter Artibani email

BMC Cancer 2004, 4:95doi:10.1186/1471-2407-4-95

Not the first reported case

M Hammad Ather   (27 January 2005)  Aga Khan university email

I disagree with the authors contention that this has not been reported before, as I and my colleague reported exactly similar scenario in 1999 in an indexed medicus journal.

Ather MH, Memon A.

Acute urinary retention: a primary manifestation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and organ confined prostate cancer.

J Pak Med Assoc. 1999 May;49(5):124-5. No abstract available

Kind regards

M Hammad Ather, MBBS,FCPS(urol.),FEBU

Assistant Prof.

Dept of Surgery

Aga Khan University

P O Box 3500, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800

Competing interests

None declared

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