Pseudoleukemia due to infection. A case report
Dreskin, S.C.; Iberti, T.J.; Watson-Williams, E.J.
Journal of Medicine 14(2): 147-155
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-7850 PMID: 6577121 Document Number: 219229
A 29-year-old white female developed fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and hypovolemic shock. Twenty-four hours after resection of intraperitoneal adhesions she had granulocytopenia and leukopenia with a marked "left shift"; a bone marrow aspirate was interpreted as showing acute non-lymphocytic leukemia. The clinical presentation made this diagnosis unlikely and the subsequent course indicated that this was a reaction to bacterial infection.