title: Acute myeloid leukemia: ecchymoses as sole clinical symptom.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University of Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Balduf
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Steinkraus
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mensing
mesh_terms: 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