Skip Navigation



QJM Advance Access published online on May 11, 2009
QJM, doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcp051
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
102/7/491    most recent
hcp051v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kumar, B.
Right arrow Articles by Mahajan, K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Kumar, B.
Right arrow Articles by Mahajan, K.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Physicians. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

An uncommon cause of small bowel obstruction: isolated primary granulocytic sarcoma

B. Kumar1, V. Bommana1, F. Irani1, R. Kasmani1, A. Mian2 and K. Mahajan1

From the 1St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, 2213 Cherry Street, Toledo, Ohio 43608 and 2St. Charles Mercy Hospital, 2600 Navarre Avenue, Oregon, Ohio 43616 USA

Address correspondence to Farzan Irani, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, 2213 Cherry Street, Toledo, Ohio 43608, USA. email: farzan_i@yahoo.com

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.


   Case report
 
A 55-year-old woman was admitted with a 10-day history of colicky, left lower-quadrant abdominal pain and intermittent vomiting. She also reported a 2-month history of alternating diarrhea and constipation, with a 20-pound weight loss. She denied malena or hematemesis. She had a 40-pack year history of smoking.

On admission, she was normotensive, tachycardic and appeared dehydrated. Generalized abdominal tenderness was noted on palpation, with hyperactive bowel sounds and no guarding or rigidity. There was no palpable lymphadenopathy. The remainder physical examination was unremarkable.

Laboratory examination . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Discussion
 

Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?