Acute myeloid leukaemia presenting as acute liver failure—a case report and literature review

A 75-year-old woman presented with rapidly progressive fatigue, abdominal pain and jaundice. Physical examination revealed tender abdomen and splenomegaly. Magnetic resonance cholangiogram showed marked hepatomegaly, splenomegaly and scattered nodules or masses in the liver and spleen. The patient e...

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Autores principales: Sun, Kai, Reynolds, Ryan J, Sheu, Tiffany G, Tomsula, Jessica A, Colton, Lara, Rice, Lawrence
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31645888
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.960
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author Sun, Kai
Reynolds, Ryan J
Sheu, Tiffany G
Tomsula, Jessica A
Colton, Lara
Rice, Lawrence
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description A 75-year-old woman presented with rapidly progressive fatigue, abdominal pain and jaundice. Physical examination revealed tender abdomen and splenomegaly. Magnetic resonance cholangiogram showed marked hepatomegaly, splenomegaly and scattered nodules or masses in the liver and spleen. The patient expired from multiorgan failure. Autopsy revealed infiltration of the liver, spleen and bone marrow by acute myeloid leukaemia.
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spelling pubmed-67868292019-10-23 Acute myeloid leukaemia presenting as acute liver failure—a case report and literature review Sun, Kai Reynolds, Ryan J Sheu, Tiffany G Tomsula, Jessica A Colton, Lara Rice, Lawrence Ecancermedicalscience Case Report A 75-year-old woman presented with rapidly progressive fatigue, abdominal pain and jaundice. Physical examination revealed tender abdomen and splenomegaly. Magnetic resonance cholangiogram showed marked hepatomegaly, splenomegaly and scattered nodules or masses in the liver and spleen. The patient expired from multiorgan failure. Autopsy revealed infiltration of the liver, spleen and bone marrow by acute myeloid leukaemia. Cancer Intelligence 2019-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6786829/ /pubmed/31645888 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.960 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Acute myeloid leukaemia presenting as acute liver failure—a case report and literature review
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