Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Mimicking Fulminant Periorbital Cellulitis

PURPOSE: To report a patient who was referred for orbital cellulitis but was finally diagnosed with acute leukemia. CASE REPORT: A 17-year-old boy presented with fever, periorbital erythema and swelling mimicking periorbital cellulitis. He underwent empiric antibiotic therapy. Complete blood counts...

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Autores principales: Bagheri, Abbas, Abrishami, Alireza, Karimi, Saeed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ophthalmic Research Center 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24653827
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description PURPOSE: To report a patient who was referred for orbital cellulitis but was finally diagnosed with acute leukemia. CASE REPORT: A 17-year-old boy presented with fever, periorbital erythema and swelling mimicking periorbital cellulitis. He underwent empiric antibiotic therapy. Complete blood counts revealed leukocytosis with a predominance of immature blast cells. Bone marrow aspiration confirmed the diagnosis of acute myelogenous leukemia. Chemotherapy was initiated resulting in resolution of signs and symptoms. CONCLUSION: Acute leukemia may mimic periorbital cellulitis and must be considered in the differential diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-39570462014-03-20 Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Mimicking Fulminant Periorbital Cellulitis Bagheri, Abbas Abrishami, Alireza Karimi, Saeed J Ophthalmic Vis Res Case Report PURPOSE: To report a patient who was referred for orbital cellulitis but was finally diagnosed with acute leukemia. CASE REPORT: A 17-year-old boy presented with fever, periorbital erythema and swelling mimicking periorbital cellulitis. He underwent empiric antibiotic therapy. Complete blood counts revealed leukocytosis with a predominance of immature blast cells. Bone marrow aspiration confirmed the diagnosis of acute myelogenous leukemia. Chemotherapy was initiated resulting in resolution of signs and symptoms. CONCLUSION: Acute leukemia may mimic periorbital cellulitis and must be considered in the differential diagnosis. Ophthalmic Research Center 2013-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3957046/ /pubmed/24653827 Text en © 2013 Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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title_full Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Mimicking Fulminant Periorbital Cellulitis
title_fullStr Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Mimicking Fulminant Periorbital Cellulitis
title_full_unstemmed Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Mimicking Fulminant Periorbital Cellulitis
title_short Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Mimicking Fulminant Periorbital Cellulitis
title_sort acute myelogenous leukemia mimicking fulminant periorbital cellulitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24653827
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