Successful treatment of relapsed and refractory extramedullary acute promyelocytic leukemia with tamibarotene

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Naina, Harris V ^a   Levitt, Daniel ^b   Vusirikala, Madhuri ^a   Anderson Jr , Larry D ^a   Scaglioni, Pier Paolo ^a   Kirk, Angela ^a   Collins Jr , Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CytRx Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GEMTUZUMAB OZOGAMICIN; IDARUBICIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; TAMIBAROTENE;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME 7P; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPNEA; ECCHYMOSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LEG; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PROMYELOCYTIC SARCOMA; REFRACTORY EXTRAMEDULLARY ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; RELAPSED EXTRAMEDULLARY ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOMA; SCAPULA; SHOULDER PAIN; THORACIC SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ADULT; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARSENICALS; BENZOATES; BONE MARROW; BONE NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IDARUBICIN; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION; MALE; METHOTREXATE; OXIDES; REMISSION INDUCTION; SALVAGE THERAPY; SARCOMA, MYELOID; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TETRAHYDRONAPHTHALENES; TRETINOIN;

EID: 79959289081     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.34.8953     Document Type: Article

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