Tetraploid acute promyelocytic leukemia with double PML/RARA gene rearrangements successfully treated with all-trans retinoic acid

International Journal of Hematology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 405-406

  Kuyama, Jun ^a   Tsumori, You ^b   Aoyama, Keisuke ^c   Kosugi, Satoru ^a   Take, Hironori ^a   Matsuyama, Tatsuo ^a  

^a TOYONAKA MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; RETINOIC ACID;

ADULT; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLONE; DEVICE; DIPLOIDY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INTERPHASE; LETTER; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MALE; METAPHASE; MOLECULAR PROBE; PANCYTOPENIA; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TETRAPLOIDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2942569643     PISSN: 09255710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/IJH97.03150     Document Type: Letter

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