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Leukaemic synovitis
Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Correspondence to: Michalis Voulgarelis, MD, University of Athens Medical School, Department of Pathophysiology, 75 M. Asias Street, 11527, Athens, Greece. E-mail: mvoulgar@med.uoa.gr
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A 75-yr-old female, previously diagnosed as myelodysplastic syndrome, presented with fever, migratory polyarthritis and pancytopenia. Physical examination revealed frank symmetrical arthritis, additive in character that involved knees and ankles. The examination of peripheral blood film did not disclose blast cells. Synovial