[A case of acute leukemia with a diabetes insipidus syndrome and thrombocytosis].
A case is described of acute leukosis presenting with unusual clinical picture. In a female patient aged forty nine presenting with signs of diabetes insipidus, blood count revealed thrombocytosis together with alterations suggesting acute leukosis. Bone marrow blasts showed the typical morphological features of megakaryoblasts. Institution of chemotherapy made for dispelling of diabetes-insipidus manifestations. To the authors' thinking, they observed a rare megakaryoblastic variety of acute leukosis caused by leukotic infiltration of the hypothalamohypophyseal zone in a patient wasted by heavy urination as is common in diabetes insipidus.
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Tyrkasova
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Shekhovtseva
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Tyrkasova
D000208:Acute Disease; D003919:Diabetes Insipidus / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008533:Megakaryocytes / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D013577:Syndrome; D013922:Thrombocytosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology