A case of leukemic retinopathy mimicking common ischemic retinopathies

Reported case of leukemic retinopathy mimicking common ischemic retinopathies in a young adult where ophthalmic visit was the first step to the diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia. It highlights the importance of routine eye exams and that clinicians should suspect leukemia in an otherwise healthy...

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Autores principales: Awuah, Agnes, Asiedu, Kofi, Adanusa, Madison, Ntodie, Michael, Acquah, Ebo, Kyei, Samuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.457
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author Awuah, Agnes
Asiedu, Kofi
Adanusa, Madison
Ntodie, Michael
Acquah, Ebo
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spelling pubmed-47365092016-02-09 A case of leukemic retinopathy mimicking common ischemic retinopathies Awuah, Agnes Asiedu, Kofi Adanusa, Madison Ntodie, Michael Acquah, Ebo Kyei, Samuel Clin Case Rep Case Reports Reported case of leukemic retinopathy mimicking common ischemic retinopathies in a young adult where ophthalmic visit was the first step to the diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia. It highlights the importance of routine eye exams and that clinicians should suspect leukemia in an otherwise healthy patient presenting with ischemic retinopathy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4736509/ /pubmed/26862408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.457 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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A case of leukemic retinopathy mimicking common ischemic retinopathies
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title_short A case of leukemic retinopathy mimicking common ischemic retinopathies
title_sort case of leukemic retinopathy mimicking common ischemic retinopathies
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.457
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