Sore throat, fever, and pancytopenia during winter

Abstract

Key Clinical Message Care must be taken to mitigate the effect of cognitive bias in times of frequent common presentations. The etiology of bicytopenias and pancytopenias must always be carefully investigated. Blast cells in low count B ALL may not be seen on a peripheral smear and diagnosis often requires confirmational bone marrow aspirate with flow cytometry and molecular typing.

Keywords

• acute medicine
• adolescent medicine
• infectious diseases
• oncology
• paediatrics