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Query: UMLS:C0038358 (gastric ulcer)
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Lesion of optic disc may appear also with coherence to myeloid leukaemia. Authors introduce a case report of a patient, who found out help of an ophthalmologist with very indefinite difficulties (visual acuity deterioration of her left eye in connection with long-lasting sinusitis). Due to changes in orbit and the optic disc the status was evaluated as retrobulbar neuritis. During the indicated therapy by corticosteroids (Prednison) a steroid gastric ulcer was unfolded. During the additional therapy and after the sternal punction the acute monocytic leukaemia (AML) was diagnosed. On that base the aimed therapy at the Clinic of Haematology was realised. The patient died 27 months since the diagnose of AML was determined.
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PMID:[Acute monocytic leukemia simulating clinical manifestations of retrobulbar neuritis]. 773 25