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

Yasir Bashir1, Fahim Manzoor2, Shuaeb Bhat2, Nusrat Bashir2,, Shabeer Ahmad3, Sajad Geelani2, 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

American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2014, 2(10), 227-228. DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-2-10-8
Published online: August 25, 2017

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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