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Double Jeopardy: Autoimmune Myelofibrosis with Pyoderma Gangrenosum

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A 33-year-old African American woman with no significant past medical history presented to an outside hospital with 3 months of oropharyngeal ulcers and odynophagia. She was also noted to be pancytopenic (hemoglobin 7.4 g/dL, mean corpuscular volume 81 fL, platelets 100,000/mm3, white blood cells 3000/mm3, absolute neutrophil count 600/mm3) with blood smear findings of teardrop cells and anisopoikilocytosis. She...