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Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
CASE REPORT
Priapism due to essential thrombocythaemia: a rare causation
  1. Sunny Goel,
  2. Ashok Kumar Sokhal,
  3. Bhupendra Pal Singh,
  4. Ajay Aggarwal
  1. Department of Urology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sunny Goel, drsunnygoel09{at}gmail.com

Summary

Priapism is rarely caused by essential thrombocytosis, a disorder characterised by increased number of megakaryocytes. We report a case of a 21-year-old man who presented with priapism and on investigation was found to have essential thrombocytosis as the cause.

  • haematology (incl blood transfusion)
  • urological surgery

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221116

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    • Contributors All of the authors declare that they have participated in the design, execution and analysis of the paper, and that they have approved the final version. SG: Concept, design, supervision, processing, writing the manuscript and critical analysis. AKS: Supervision, processing, writing the manuscript and critical analysis. BPS: Concept, design, supervision, processing, writing the manuscript and critical analysis. AA: Concept, supervision, writing the manuscript and critical analysis.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.