Acute Myeloid Sarcoma: An Unusual Cause of Diarrhea

A 62-year-old man with a past medical history of hypothyroidism was admitted for diarrhea and abdominal pain for three weeks. Initial workup for diarrhea was negative. His condition deteriorated after hospitalization. He underwent sigmoidoscopy which showed rectosigmoid mucosal ulceration. Pathology...

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Autores principales: Safi, Danish, Acharya, Luna, Khan, Maimoona, Paun, Oana, Vigil, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33150100
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10748
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author Safi, Danish
Acharya, Luna
Khan, Maimoona
Paun, Oana
Vigil, Carlos
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description A 62-year-old man with a past medical history of hypothyroidism was admitted for diarrhea and abdominal pain for three weeks. Initial workup for diarrhea was negative. His condition deteriorated after hospitalization. He underwent sigmoidoscopy which showed rectosigmoid mucosal ulceration. Pathology showed leukemic cells infiltration of the mucosa. The patient underwent bone marrow biopsy which confirmed the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He received induction chemotherapy and his symptoms improved.
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spelling pubmed-76038802020-11-03 Acute Myeloid Sarcoma: An Unusual Cause of Diarrhea Safi, Danish Acharya, Luna Khan, Maimoona Paun, Oana Vigil, Carlos Cureus Oncology A 62-year-old man with a past medical history of hypothyroidism was admitted for diarrhea and abdominal pain for three weeks. Initial workup for diarrhea was negative. His condition deteriorated after hospitalization. He underwent sigmoidoscopy which showed rectosigmoid mucosal ulceration. Pathology showed leukemic cells infiltration of the mucosa. The patient underwent bone marrow biopsy which confirmed the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He received induction chemotherapy and his symptoms improved. Cureus 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7603880/ /pubmed/33150100 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10748 Text en Copyright © 2020, Safi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Acute Myeloid Sarcoma: An Unusual Cause of Diarrhea
title Acute Myeloid Sarcoma: An Unusual Cause of Diarrhea
title_full Acute Myeloid Sarcoma: An Unusual Cause of Diarrhea
title_fullStr Acute Myeloid Sarcoma: An Unusual Cause of Diarrhea
title_full_unstemmed Acute Myeloid Sarcoma: An Unusual Cause of Diarrhea
title_short Acute Myeloid Sarcoma: An Unusual Cause of Diarrhea
title_sort acute myeloid sarcoma: an unusual cause of diarrhea
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603880/
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