Relapse in the external auditory canal of acute promyelocytic leukemia after treatment with all-trans retinoic acid

Internal Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 484-486

  Tobita, Tadasu ^a   Shinjyo, Kaori ^a   Yanagi, Mitsuaki ^a   Takeshita, Akihiro ^a   Ohnishi, Kazunori ^a   Ohno, Ryuzo ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extramedullary disease; Leukemia cutis

Indexed keywords

ACLARUBICIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ENOCITABINE; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IDARUBICIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; MITOXANTRONE; RETINOIC ACID; VINDESINE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RELAPSE; SKIN CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030750065     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.484     Document Type: Article

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