Acute myeloid leukaemia presenting with mediastinal myeloid sarcoma: Report of three cases and review of literature

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-294

  Ramasamy, Karthik ^a   Lim, Ziyi ^a   Pagliuca, Antonio ^a   Devereux, Stephen ^a   Ho, Aloysius Y L ^a   Mufti, Ghulam J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; ALLOPURINOL; AMSACRINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IDARUBICIN; MITOXANTRONE; RASBURICASE; STEROID;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; MEDIASTINUM MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; THORAX PAIN; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR CELL DESTRUCTION; ACUTE MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; GENETICS; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SECOND CANCER; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MONOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; SARCOMA, GRANULOCYTIC; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME;

EID: 34247892333     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190601059803     Document Type: Article

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