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ArticleBMJ case reports2019

Unusual presentation of extramedullary haematopoiesis in a young boy.

Pramod Darole, Uma Sundar, Nilesh Kuchekar, Ajay Karre

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pramod DaroleDepartment of Medicine, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Uma SundarDepartment of Medicine, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Nilesh KuchekarDepartment of Medicine, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Ajay KarreDepartment of Medicine, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute transverse myelopathy in a young person may be due to infection, postinfective or inflammatory demyelination, or vascular causes. Rarely, a completely reversible cause of acute transverse myelopathy may be seen, as described here in our case of transverse myelopathy due to extramedullary haematopoiesis (EMH). An 18-year-old man who had a history of a lone blood transfusion at age of 7 years presented with paraplegia. MRI showed multiple epidural space masses of EMH compressing the spinal cord. He was detected to have thalassaemia intermedia and was treated with blood transfusions, steroids and radiotherapy to the involved paraspinal areas. He recovered fully over 15 days and remained symptom free at 6 months.

Indexed as

Hematopoiesis, ExtramedullaryAdolescentbeta-ThalassemiaEpidural SpaceHumansMaleMyelitis, TransverseParaplegiahaematology (incl blood transfusion)spinal cord

Identifiers

PMID30904883
PMCPMC6453391
OpenAlexW3023926494

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