Acute arterial thrombosis in acute promyelocytic leukaemia

Clinical and Laboratory Haematology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 267-270

  Kalk, E ^a   Goede, A ^a   Rose, Peter ^a  

^a WARWICK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute promyelocytic leukaemia; Acute thrombosis; All trans retinoic acid; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Procoagulant activity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; RETINOIC ACID; TIOGUANINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEG ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AMPUTATION; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIA; LEG; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POPLITEAL ARTERY; REMISSION INDUCTION; SMOKING; THIOGUANINE; THROMBOPHILIA; THROMBOPLASTIN; THROMBOSIS; TOES; TRETINOIN; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

EID: 0041658950     PISSN: 01419854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2257.2003.00526.x     Document Type: Article

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