An Ulceronecrotic Foot Lesion in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia: Successful Treatment with Hydroxyurea

The patient was a 47-year-old woman with a painful ulcer that had appeared on the right 5th toe two weeks before she visited our hospital. Histopathological examination showed that thrombi were present in small blood vessels in the dermis and pancytosis was detected in a blood test, suggesting polyc...

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Autores principales: Kato, Tokue, Kawana, Seiji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2012
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Published: January, 2012
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3271840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22308114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000335997
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description The patient was a 47-year-old woman with a painful ulcer that had appeared on the right 5th toe two weeks before she visited our hospital. Histopathological examination showed that thrombi were present in small blood vessels in the dermis and pancytosis was detected in a blood test, suggesting polycythemia-associated ulceration of the toe. Essential thrombocythemia was diagnosed based on bone marrow puncture and chromosomal test findings. Platelet count and the ulcer were improved by oral hydroxyurea.
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spelling pubmed-32718402012-02-03 An Ulceronecrotic Foot Lesion in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia: Successful Treatment with Hydroxyurea Kato, Tokue Kawana, Seiji Case Rep Dermatol Published: January, 2012 The patient was a 47-year-old woman with a painful ulcer that had appeared on the right 5th toe two weeks before she visited our hospital. Histopathological examination showed that thrombi were present in small blood vessels in the dermis and pancytosis was detected in a blood test, suggesting polycythemia-associated ulceration of the toe. Essential thrombocythemia was diagnosed based on bone marrow puncture and chromosomal test findings. Platelet count and the ulcer were improved by oral hydroxyurea. S. Karger AG 2012-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3271840/ /pubmed/22308114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000335997 Text en Copyright © 2012 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: January, 2012
Kato, Tokue
Kawana, Seiji
An Ulceronecrotic Foot Lesion in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia: Successful Treatment with Hydroxyurea
title An Ulceronecrotic Foot Lesion in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia: Successful Treatment with Hydroxyurea
title_full An Ulceronecrotic Foot Lesion in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia: Successful Treatment with Hydroxyurea
title_fullStr An Ulceronecrotic Foot Lesion in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia: Successful Treatment with Hydroxyurea
title_full_unstemmed An Ulceronecrotic Foot Lesion in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia: Successful Treatment with Hydroxyurea
title_short An Ulceronecrotic Foot Lesion in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia: Successful Treatment with Hydroxyurea
title_sort ulceronecrotic foot lesion in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: successful treatment with hydroxyurea
topic Published: January, 2012
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3271840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22308114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000335997
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