Acute myeloid leukemia with concurrent myeloid sarcoma treated with autologous bone marrow transplantation: Two illustrative cases and a literature review

Hematological Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 133-135

  Finnegan, D P J ^a   Jones, F G C ^a   McMullin, M F ^a,b  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukemia; Autologous bone marrow transplantation; Myeloid sarcoma

Indexed keywords

AMSACRINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; RETINOIC ACID; TIOGUANINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; JAUNDICE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MYELOID SARCOMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOMA; THORAX PAIN; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SARCOMA, GRANULOCYTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 30344481939     PISSN: 02780232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hon.759     Document Type: Review

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