Interaction between paracetamol and oral anticoagulants.

reveal leukaemia. Bone pain and arthralgias are common presenting symptoms of childhood [3], often accompanied by fever and raised ESR. Interestingly, children with leukaemia who present with musculoskeletal symptoms often have low peripheral leukocyte numbers and few, if any, peripheral blasts [7, 8]. In conclusion, periodic fever accompanied by skeletal pain or profound anaemia should alert the physician to the possibility of underlying leukaemia.