Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation With Purpura Fulminans Presentation of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

A 47-year-old male presented to the emergency department with 12 hours of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and a widespread skin eruption with mottled, irregular, purpuric lesions with subsequent rapid decompensation. Laboratory analysis revealed thrombocytopenia, bandemia, elevated metamyelocytes,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Douglas Ader, Muhammad Durrani, Eric Blazar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-11-01
Series:Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rz1t8qg