Di Guglielmo's Syndrome after Polycythemia

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IN a review of all the cases of erythroleukemia reported up to 19631 there was none in which this disease was associated with polycythemia vera. Recently, however, 2 cases of acute erythroleukemia (Di Guglielmo's syndrome) developing in patients with polycythemia vera have been reported.2 , 3 We present here a third case of this unusual association.Case ReportJ.M. (PH-138–93–97), a 67-year old construction superintendent, was admitted to the Medical Service on October 13, 1964, with a chief complaint of weakness and fever of 2 days' duration. He had first been seen in September, 1958, when he was noted to be polycythemic . . .