Corpus ID: 33618670

Granulocyte sarcoma presenting as acute Paraplegia and Proptosis

@inproceedings{Krishnamurthy2014GranulocyteSP,
  title={Granulocyte sarcoma presenting as acute Paraplegia and Proptosis},
  author={Vikas G Krishnamurthy and K. Bhagwat and P. Shashikala and S. Prashant and Raghavendra Khanapur},
  year={2014}
}

Vikas G Krishnamurthy, K. Bhagwat, +2 authors Raghavendra Khanapur

Published 2014

Medicine

Paraplegia due to a spinal cord epidural mass is an extremely rare presentation of undiagnosed leukemia. Paraplegia with co-existing proptosis as a initial presentation due to chloroma is extremely rare entity. Here, we report a case of 16 year old boy who presented to Emergency Department with acute paraplegia and urine retention due to multiple cervical, thoracic and sacral epidural masses and progressive bilateral proptosis due to extraconal masses, as an initial presentating manifestation… CONTINUE READING

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