Acute promyelocytic leukemia developing in untreated essential thrombocythemia

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 114-116

  Sato, Naoaki ^a   Furukawa, Tatsuo ^b   Masuko, Masayoshi ^a   Hashimoto, Shigeo ^a   Takahashi, Hidenobu ^a   Baba, Miyako ^b   Inano, Koichi ^b   Suzuki, Noriatsu ^a   Toba, Ken ^a   Fuse, Ichiro ^b   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute promyelocytic leukemia; Acute transformation; Essential thrombocythemia; Myeloproliferative disease; Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA CELL; MALE; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIBLING; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; REMISSION INDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THROMBOCYTHEMIA, HEMORRHAGIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036786799     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.10195     Document Type: Article

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