Severe Hypercalcemia: A Rare and Unusual Presentation of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Hypercalcemia in children is a medical emergency and often manifests as nonspecific symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and anorexia. Severe hypercalcemia is a rare complication of malignancy in children, while it can be seen in various types of malignant tumors. It is usually associated...
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| author | Gholamreza Bahoush Ghasem Miri-Aliabad |
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| description | Hypercalcemia in children is a medical emergency and often manifests as nonspecific symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and anorexia. Severe hypercalcemia is a rare complication of malignancy in children, while it can be seen in various types of malignant tumors. It is usually associated with significant morbidity and may be severe enough to threaten life. Incidence of hypercalcemia in hematopoietic malignancies including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is very rare and unusual, especially as the initial manifestation of the disease. In this paper a 6-year-old boy who had severe hypercalcemia and gastrointestinal symptoms before the onset of common and usual manifestations of ALL is introduced. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-90c70b7649e24d47a7e39165911b60be2023-09-02T07:32:40ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesInternational Journal of Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Research2008-22072014-06-0182407Severe Hypercalcemia: A Rare and Unusual Presentation of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic LeukemiaGholamreza Bahoush0Ghasem Miri-Aliabad1Assistant professor of pediatric hematology-oncology, Oncopathology research center, Ali Asghar children's hospital, Iran University of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran.Assistant professor of pediatric hematology-oncology, Children and Adolescent Health Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.Hypercalcemia in children is a medical emergency and often manifests as nonspecific symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and anorexia. Severe hypercalcemia is a rare complication of malignancy in children, while it can be seen in various types of malignant tumors. It is usually associated with significant morbidity and may be severe enough to threaten life. Incidence of hypercalcemia in hematopoietic malignancies including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is very rare and unusual, especially as the initial manifestation of the disease. In this paper a 6-year-old boy who had severe hypercalcemia and gastrointestinal symptoms before the onset of common and usual manifestations of ALL is introduced.https://ijhoscr.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijhoscr/article/view/421Acute lymphoblastic leukemiaChildrenHypercalcemia |
| spellingShingle | Gholamreza Bahoush Ghasem Miri-Aliabad Severe Hypercalcemia: A Rare and Unusual Presentation of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia International Journal of Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Research Acute lymphoblastic leukemia Children Hypercalcemia |
| title | Severe Hypercalcemia: A Rare and Unusual Presentation of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| title_full | Severe Hypercalcemia: A Rare and Unusual Presentation of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| title_fullStr | Severe Hypercalcemia: A Rare and Unusual Presentation of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Severe Hypercalcemia: A Rare and Unusual Presentation of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| title_short | Severe Hypercalcemia: A Rare and Unusual Presentation of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| title_sort | severe hypercalcemia a rare and unusual presentation of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia |
| topic | Acute lymphoblastic leukemia Children Hypercalcemia |
| url | https://ijhoscr.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijhoscr/article/view/421 |
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