title: [Hemolysis and metastatic cancer in an elderly man].
abstract: Sometimes correct diagnoses is reached after many years and even after decades. Our patient had for decades suffered from a hemolytic disease, life-threatening, metastatic cancer at the age of almost 90 years was also suspected. The patient was finally diagnosed as having mild hereditary spherocytosis and the associated paraspinal extramedullar hematopoiesis as well as an osteoporotic vertebral fracture caused by osteoporosis.
authors.forename: Kari
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Remes
authors.forename: Merja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raade
authors.forename: Lauri
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Karhumäki
authors.forename: Tuomo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Timonen
authors.forename: Matti J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Välimäki
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006411:Hematopoiesis, Extramedullary / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D058866:Osteoporotic Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013103:Spherocytosis, Hereditary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis*