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Lucilene Silva Ruiz Resende1, Seizo Yamashita2, Ligia Niéro-Melo1
1Haematology Service of Internal Medicine Department, Botucatu Medical School, São Paulo State University - UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil.
Abstract:
This is a rare case of an elderly woman diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia secondary to myelodysplastic syndrome who presented a spontaneous trans-iliac bone faecal fistula probably related to an incarcerated inguinal hernia and neutropaenia. As far as we know, this is the first described case of a trans-iliac bone faecal fistula.
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