Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenting Solely as Low Back Pain

A 23-year-old man with acute lymphoblastic leukemia presented to the emergency department without any history of constitutional symptoms (fatigue, anorexia, or weight loss), dyspnea, bruising, or bleeding. Presentation of acute leukemia solely as musculoskeletal pathology is common in pediatric popu...

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Autores principales: Goodwin, Joshua, Das, Bijon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6366376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30775667
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.1.40699
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description A 23-year-old man with acute lymphoblastic leukemia presented to the emergency department without any history of constitutional symptoms (fatigue, anorexia, or weight loss), dyspnea, bruising, or bleeding. Presentation of acute leukemia solely as musculoskeletal pathology is common in pediatric populations but rare among adult patients. Recognizing this presentation of acute leukemia in adult patients could help prevent delayed diagnoses.
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spelling pubmed-63663762019-02-15 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenting Solely as Low Back Pain Goodwin, Joshua Das, Bijon Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Case Report A 23-year-old man with acute lymphoblastic leukemia presented to the emergency department without any history of constitutional symptoms (fatigue, anorexia, or weight loss), dyspnea, bruising, or bleeding. Presentation of acute leukemia solely as musculoskeletal pathology is common in pediatric populations but rare among adult patients. Recognizing this presentation of acute leukemia in adult patients could help prevent delayed diagnoses. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6366376/ /pubmed/30775667 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.1.40699 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Goodwin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6366376/
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