Image diagnosis: Weber syndrome: a rare presentation of acute leukemia-a case report and review of the literature

Valliappan Muthu; Santosh Kumar; Gaurav Prakash; Prashant Sharma; Subhash Varma

doi:10.7812/TPP/14-126

Image diagnosis: Weber syndrome: a rare presentation of acute leukemia-a case report and review of the literature

Perm J. 2015 Winter;19(1):83-5. doi: 10.7812/TPP/14-126.

Authors

Valliappan Muthu¹, Santosh Kumar², Gaurav Prakash³, Prashant Sharma⁴, Subhash Varma⁵

Affiliations

¹ Senior Resident in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. [email protected].
² Junior Resident in the Department of Radiodiagnosis at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. [email protected].
³ Assistant Professor in the Clinical Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Centre, Department of Internal Medicine, at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. [email protected].
⁴ Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. [email protected].
⁵ Professor and Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. [email protected].

Abstract

For two weeks before presentation, a 13-year-old boy had fever, fatigue, and breathlessness, and painless lymphadenopathy on both sides of his neck, axilla, and groin. He developed drooping of the right upper eyelid. Non-contrast computed tomography scans of the head showed multiple hemorrhages.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Brain Stem Infarctions / etiology*
Humans
Intracranial Hemorrhages / complications
Male
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / complications*
Syndrome
Tomography, X-Ray Computed