Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 610969, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/610969
Case Report

Spontaneous Tumor Lysis Syndrome in the Setting of B-Cell Lymphoma

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Received 2 October 2009; Accepted 21 January 2010

Academic Editor: Selina M. Luger

Copyright © 2010 Mateusz Opyrchal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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