Elemental arsenic entered the cerebrospinal fluid during oral arsenic trioxide treatment of meningeal relapse of acute promyelocytic leukemia [5]

Blood

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 3012-3013

  Au, Wing Yan ^b   Tam, Sidney ^b   Fong, Bonnie M ^b   Kwong, Yok Lam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ASCORBIC ACID; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; MITOXANTRONE; RETINOIC ACID;

ADULT; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLIOSIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKULL IRRADIATION;

EID: 33645521562     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-10-4175     Document Type: Letter

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