Hyperferritinemia in a Case of Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Tanya Pruthi
Department of General Medicine, MMIMSR, Mullana, Ambala, India.
Bimal K. Agrawal
Department of General Medicine, MMIMSR, Mullana, Ambala, India.
Shiv Pankaj Khanna
Department of Pathology, MMIMSR, Mullana, Ambala, India.
Jaskaran Bazad
Department of General Medicine, MMIMSR, Mullana, Ambala, India.
Mini Bhatnagar *
Department of General Medicine, MMIMSR, Mullana, Ambala, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
An elderly male presented with symptoms suggestive of anemia. During workup for the same he was found to have very high levels of serum Ferritin along with a normocytic, normochromic peripheral blood film and no other apparent cause for hyperferritinemia .A swelling which incidentally found on his shin was further investigated by FNAC confirmed presence of soft tissue sarcoma.
Keywords: Anemia, hyperferritinemia, soft tissue sarcoma.