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Isolation of Leukocytes from the Human Maternal-fetal Interface
Published on: May 21, 2015
Acute promyelocytic leukaemia presenting as postpartum haemorrhage
R J A Murrin1, V Adjetey, P Harrison
1Department of Haematology, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Mids, UK.
Clinical and Laboratory Haematology
|May 28, 2004
Abstract:
Acute leukaemia is encountered rarely in obstetric practice, occurring once in every 100,000 pregnancies. Such cases are usually diagnosed in the second and third trimesters. We describe a patient who developed a postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) as the presenting feature of acute promyelocytic leukaemia, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported previously.
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