Spontaneous splenic rupture in a teenager as first manifestation of acute myeloid leukemia: Case report and literature review
Journal Title: Journal of Health and Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Spontaneous splenic rupture is a well-known, but rare life-threatening complication of hematological malignancies. We describe the case of a 12-year-old boy with a 5-day history of fever and successively left upper quadrant abdominal pain and sudden clinical deterioration necessitating emergency splenectomy. On arrival, a blood dyscrasia was postoperatively confirmed as acute myeloid leukemia. Cases of atraumatic rupture in diseased spleens are widely reported and pathological rupture of the spleen is a rare, but well recognized complication in hematological malignancies. This case report represents a rare and fatal initial presentation of acute myeloid leukemia in an adolescent. Because of the rarity of atraumatic splenic rupture, a high index of clinical suspicion must be maintained in patients with left upper quadrant pain and abnormal differential count on peripheral blood smear.
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Antonio Villa, Simona Rossi, Isabella Riva, Cecilia Tedesco, Francesca Maria Zanchettin, Rinaldo Chiumento
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- EP ID EP561724
- DOI 10.19204/2018//spnt3
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