1Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sher -I -Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
2Department of Haematology, Sher -I -Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
3Department of General Surgery, Sher -I -Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
American Journal of Medical Case Reports.
2014,
Vol. 2 No. 10, 227-228
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-2-10-8
Copyright © 2014 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Yasir Bashir, Fahim Manzoor, Shuaeb Bhat, Nusrat Bashir, Shabeer Ahmad, Sajad Geelani, Javid Rasool. Unusual Presentation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia as Retroperitoneal Hematoma: A Case Report.
American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2014; 2(10):227-228. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-2-10-8.
Correspondence to: Nusrat Bashir, Department of Haematology, Sher -I -Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Email:
bashirnusrat@ymail.comAbstract
Chronic myeloid leukemia(CML) usually remains asymptomatic and has varied clinical presentation. The disease usually has a chronic course till it goes into blast crisis when it develops fever, other constitutional symptoms and bleeding manifestations as seen in acute leukemia. Here, we present a case that came to our emergency department as a case of acute abdomen in the form of massive retroperitoneal hematoma and subsequently proved to be a case of Philadelphia positive CML with blast crisis.
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