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| Year : 2014 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 20-23 |
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Chloroma (Granulocytic sarcoma): An unusual cause of shoulder pain in chronic myeloid leukemia; a diagnostic dilemma
Sachin Upadhyay1, Shyam Ji Rawat2, Gourav Gupta3, Upasna Saxena3
1 Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Rehabilitation, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
2 Department of Radiotherapy, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
3 Department of Radiotherapy, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Sachin Upadhyay
622, "Poonam" Sneh Nagar, State Bank Colony Jabalpur 482 002, Madhya Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2319-2585.134206
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At one point or another in their lives, most people will experience some degree of shoulder pain. It may be secondary to a variety of underlying pathology. We report a case of shoulder pain caused by a granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patient misdiagnosed initially as synovitis. Although granulocytic sarcoma has many classic musculoskeletal manifestations, to our knowledge, a case of CML concurrent with chloroma of the shoulder joint has not been reported in the literature. We must not forget that the shoulder pain arising from granulocytic sarcoma may be the initial presenting feature of underlying hematological malignancy such as CML. |
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