Successful treatment of acute promyelocytic leukaemia during pregnancy

Clinical and Laboratory Haematology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 307-311

  Carradice, D ^a,d   Austin, N ^b   Bayston, K ^c   Ganly, P S ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b Christchurch Womens Hospital   (New Zealand)

^c SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

All trans retinoic acid; Complications; Leukaemia; Pregnancy; Promyelocytic

Indexed keywords

IDARUBICIN; RETINOIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CYTOGENETICS; DELIVERY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT; PANCYTOPENIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; REMISSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SIDE EFFECT; TERATOGENESIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; DEXAMETHASONE; DIURETICS; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; IDARUBICIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LUNG; NEUTROPENIA; NUTRITION DISORDERS; OXYGEN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; TRANEXAMIC ACID; TRETINOIN;

EID: 0036399190     PISSN: 01419854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2257.2002.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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