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A 4 yr old child presents with eczema, pneumococcal pneumonia and low plt. count and an absent thymic shadow. The child is predispoded to which of the following diseases.
a.Colonic carcinoma
b.CML
c.Non hodgkin's ymphoma
d.Wilm's tuor
e. Astrocytoma
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veronica92, could u explain plz.
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The patient has Wiscott Aldrich syndrome. Such patients present with a triad of rash, thrombocytopenia and recurrent infections with encapsulated organisms such as pneumococci. Such pat have decreased serum IgM and T cell defecits and die before second decade of infections or T cell lymphoma.
