Jaundice and acute liver failure as the first manifestation of acute myeloid leukemia

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 733-735

  Eisen, Alon ^a,b   Dovrish, Zamir ^a,b   Hadari, Ruth ^a,b   Lew, Sylvia ^a   Amital, Howard ^a,b  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Acute myeloid leukemia; Cholestasis; Hematological malignancies; Obstructive jaundice

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; LACTULOSE; LIVER ENZYME; NEOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DISORIENTATION; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; JAUNDICE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; JAUNDICE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149168914     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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