Genital ulcers during treatment with ALL-trans retinoic acid for acute promyelocytic leukemia

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2009-2013

  Fukuno, Kenji ^a,b   Tsurumi, Hisashi ^b   Goto, Hideko ^c   Oyama, Masami ^c   Tanabashi, Shinobu ^a   Moriwaki, Hisataka ^b  

^a Takayama Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute promyelocytic leukemia; All trans retinoic acid; Fournier's gangrene; Genital ulcer

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ENOCITABINE; GENTAMICIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; RETINOIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; RETINOIC ACID SYNDROME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCROTUM DISORDER; ULCER HEALING;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRETINOIN; ULCER;

EID: 0242467318     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819031000110982     Document Type: Article

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