title: [Necrotizing tonsillitis and renal vein thrombosis due to acute myeloid leukaemia].
abstract: A 37-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with severe tonsillitis with unilateral necrotizing tonsillitis. She suddenly got fever, malaise, difficulties swallowing, pain in the throat and deterioration despite four days of penicillin treatment. During hospitalisation, she experienced abdominal pain, and blood tests showed pancytopenia. She was transferred to a haematological department, where a bone marrow biopsy showed acute myeloid leukaemia. Subsequently, an abdominal computed tomography with intravenous contrast revealed bilateral renal vein thrombosis, probably because of coagulopathy due to leukaemia.
authors.affiliation: Øre-næse-halskirurgisk Afdeling E, Køge Sygehus, Lykkebækvej 1, 4600 Køge, Denmark. javedakram@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Javed
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Akram
authors.forename: Pernilla
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Josefsson
authors.forename: Frans
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rømeling
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006495:Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D010198:Pancytopenia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D012082:Renal Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D000078222:Tinzaparin; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents; D006495:Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight; D000078222:Tinzaparin