Unusual Presentation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia as Retroperitoneal Hematoma: A Case Report

Yasir Bashir¹, Fahim Manzoor², Shuaeb Bhat², Nusrat Bashir^2, , Shabeer Ahmad³, Sajad Geelani² and Javid Rasool²

¹Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sher -I -Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

²Department of Haematology, Sher -I -Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

³Department of General Surgery, Sher -I -Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

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Yasir Bashir, Fahim Manzoor, Shuaeb Bhat, Nusrat Bashir, Shabeer Ahmad, Sajad Geelani and Javid Rasool. Unusual Presentation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia as Retroperitoneal Hematoma: A Case Report. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2014; 2(10):227-228. doi: 10.12691/AJMCR-2-10-8

Abstract

Chronic myeloid leukemia(CML) usually remains asymptomatic and has varied clinical presentation. The disease usually has a chronic course till it goes into blast crisis when it develops fever, other constitutional symptoms and bleeding manifestations as seen in acute leukemia. Here, we present a case that came to our emergency department as a case of acute abdomen in the form of massive retroperitoneal hematoma and subsequently proved to be a case of Philadelphia positive CML with blast crisis.

Keywords

Chronic myeloid leukemia, retroperitoneal hematoma

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