A case of leukemia of the appendix presenting as acute appendicitis

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 199-201

  Toubai, Tomomi ^a,b   Kondo, Yoko ^a,b   Ogawa, Takahumi ^a   Imai, Akitoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Naoki ^a   Ogasawara, Masahiro ^a   Kiyama, Yoshio ^a   Higa, Toshio ^a   Sato, Keisuke ^c   Miyokawa, Noriyuki ^c   Tanaka, Junji ^b   Imamura, Masahiro ^b   Kasai, Masaharu ^a  

^a SAPPORO HOKUYU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myelogenous leukemia; Appendectomy; Appendicitis; Granulocytic sarcoma; Initial lesion

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ENOCITABINE; IDARUBICIN; MERCAPTOPURINE RIBOSIDE; PEROXIDASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX CANCER; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IDARUBICIN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION; MALE; SARCOMA, GRANULOCYTIC;

EID: 0038649178     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070971     Document Type: Article

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