Title:Is Priapism a Common Presentation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in an Adolescent Patient?
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Author(s): Abhishek H.L. Purohit*, Sujata Sarangi, Deepak Kumar, Gopal K Bohra, Souvik Saha and Himanshu Pandey
Affiliation:
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS Medical College, Jodhpur,India
Keywords:
Chronic myeloid leukemia, adolescent, priapism, neoplasm, fatigue, haemoglobin.
Abstract: Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is predominantly a disease of adults and the elderly.
CML is uncommon in the paediatric age. Priapism as an initial presentation is quite uncommon in
CML and is rare in the case of CML in paediatric and adolescent age. We present a case of CML in
an adolescent male who presented with priapism of 48 hours duration. The patient was managed in
an emergency by corporal aspiration and saline irrigation and was found to have CML during a hospital
stay. The patient was treated with imatinib and is under follow-up for the last two years.
