Hypersensitivity Reaction to a Mosquito Bite in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

A twenty-one-year-old male patient with an exaggerated hypersensitivity reaction to a mosquito bite presented to the department of emergency medicine for further evaluation. He was noted on physical examination to have splenomegaly. The hematological blood tests that were performed were compatible w...

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Autores principales: Dior, Uri P., Salameh, Shaden, Gershinsky, Yonatan, Stalnikowicz, Ruth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/649548
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author Dior, Uri P.
Salameh, Shaden
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description A twenty-one-year-old male patient with an exaggerated hypersensitivity reaction to a mosquito bite presented to the department of emergency medicine for further evaluation. He was noted on physical examination to have splenomegaly. The hematological blood tests that were performed were compatible with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). In this case, the mosquito bite heralded the diagnosis of CML.
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spelling pubmed-35429252013-01-16 Hypersensitivity Reaction to a Mosquito Bite in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Dior, Uri P. Salameh, Shaden Gershinsky, Yonatan Stalnikowicz, Ruth Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report A twenty-one-year-old male patient with an exaggerated hypersensitivity reaction to a mosquito bite presented to the department of emergency medicine for further evaluation. He was noted on physical examination to have splenomegaly. The hematological blood tests that were performed were compatible with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). In this case, the mosquito bite heralded the diagnosis of CML. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3542925/ /pubmed/23326696 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/649548 Text en Copyright © 2011 Uri P. Dior et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Hypersensitivity Reaction to a Mosquito Bite in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
title Hypersensitivity Reaction to a Mosquito Bite in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
title_full Hypersensitivity Reaction to a Mosquito Bite in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
title_fullStr Hypersensitivity Reaction to a Mosquito Bite in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
title_full_unstemmed Hypersensitivity Reaction to a Mosquito Bite in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
title_short Hypersensitivity Reaction to a Mosquito Bite in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
title_sort hypersensitivity reaction to a mosquito bite in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/649548
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