Extensive involvement of the gastrointestinal tract by a de novo presentation of the monoblastic type of myeloid sarcoma: A case report of a rare entity that is often misdiagnosed

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 338, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 513-516

  Holloman, David ^a   Eberts, Paul ^a   Clark, Christian ^a,b   Lewin, David ^a   Lazarchick, John ^a   Stuart, Robert ^a,b   Comerford, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroma; Extramedullary myeloid tumor; Gastrointestinal; Granulocytic sarcoma; Myeloid sarcoma

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CD163 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENITIS; ENTERITIS; ENTEROPATHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG DEPOSIT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTIC COLITIS; SPLENOMEGALY; STEROID THERAPY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VISCERAL METASTASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GRANULOCYTE PRECURSOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRANULOCYTE PRECURSOR CELLS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOMA, MYELOID;

EID: 73949123369     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3181b26fa9     Document Type: Article

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