Acute myeloid leukemia: ecchymoses as sole clinical symptom.
Acute myeloid leukemia is a hematologic malignancy accompanied by specific skin involvement in only about 10 percent of reported cases. We present a case of acute myeloid leukemia in which a hemorrhagic disorder of the skin was the first and only clinical symptom of the disease before the patient died from cerebral hemorrhage.
Balduf
M
M
Department of Dermatology, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Steinkraus
V
V
Mensing
H
H
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D004438:Ecchymosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D017254:Leukemic Infiltration / Q000473:pathology; D011693:Purpura / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology