Acute myeloid leukemia presenting as splenic rupture

A Rajagopal1, R Ramasamy, J Martin

  • 1Department of Surgery, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, India.

We describe a rare case of acute myeloid leukemia presenting primarily as an acute abdomen due to spontaneous splenic rupture in a 19 years male patient. He was treated with splenectomy after failure of conservative management for splenic preservation but later succumbed to an intracerebral haemorrhage.