Acute lower limb ischemia as the initial symptom of acute myeloid leukemia

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-202

  Kafetzakis, Alexandros ^a   Foundoulakis, Andreas ^a   Ioannou, Christos V ^a   Stavroulaki, Emilia ^a   Koutsopoulos, Anastassios ^a   Katsamouris, Asterios N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arterial thromboembolic disease; Leucostasis; Leukapheresis

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; IDARUBICIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; HEMATOCRIT; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG PAIN; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 35848952957     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X07080630     Document Type: Article

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