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Acute ileotyphlitis as presenting manifestation of acute myelogenous leukemia
1Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
A case of acute myelogenous leukemia is reported in a child who presented with acute ileotyphlitis and died of an over-whelming Clostridium septicum sepsis before the chemotherapy was administered. The pathogenesis of acute ileotyphlitis, especially the role of granulocytopenia is discussed.