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Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia in Four Year Old Female Child - A Case Report [PDF]
Leukemia is the most common malignancy of childhood representing about 30 % of oncohematological diseases diagnosed in children less than 15 years of age.
Anirudha V. Kushtagi +3 more
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Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia [PDF]
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a distinct subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cytogenetically characterized by a balanced reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 15 and 17, which results in the fusion between the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) gene and retinoic acid receptor-α (RARα) [...]
Xavier Thomas, Maël Heiblig
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Myeloid sarcoma is a rare extramedullary tumor of immature myeloid cells. Certain known acute myeloid leukemia cytogenetic abnormalities, in particular t(8,21), has been associated with a higher incidence.
Xuemei Shu +4 more
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Addition of Arsenic Trioxide into Induction Regimens Could Not Accelerate Recovery of Abnormality of Coagulation and Fibrinolysis in Patients with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia. [PDF]
AIM:All-trans retinoic acid combined to anthracycline-based chemotherapy is the standard regimen of acute promyelocytic leukemia. The advent of arsenic trioxide has contributed to improve the anti-leukemic efficacy in acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Ye Zhang +4 more
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Extramedullary acute promyelocytic leukemia [PDF]
Extramedullary acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is rare, and said to be more common after treatment with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) than after any other treatment.The case of a child with extramedullary relapse of APL after initial treatment with ATRA and that of an adult whose initial treatment was chemotherapy are presented, and the literature ...
P H, Wiernik +3 more
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Obesity correlates with hematologic malignancies including leukemias, but risk of specific leukemia subtypes like acute promyelocytic leukemia and underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly understood.
Luca Mazzarella +14 more
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Extramedullary relapse of acute promyelocytic leukemia is a rare phenomenon and is associated with a poor prognosis, with the central nervous system being the most common site of relapse. The current treatments are still limited.
Xuzhao Zhang +6 more
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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is the most malignant form of acute leukemia, relatively uncommon in children, rapidly fatal if untreated and several developments have paved the way to make this disease curable. We report a first case to our knowledge in Nepal, a 12 years old boy who was diagnosed as APL and treated with vesanoid 14 years back and ...
Yuranga Weerakkody +2 more
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Background: Acute promyelocytic leukemia is an acute myeloid leukemia that accounts approximately 10% of acute myeloid leukemia cases. Acute promyelocytic leukemias usually appears as a de novo finding.
Victor Tomacinschii +6 more
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Molecular methods for genomic analyses of variant PML-RARA or other RARA-related chromosomal translocations in acute promyelocytic leukemia [PDF]
TO THE EDITOR: We read an interesting paper by Palta et al. in a recent issue of the Korean Journal of Hematology titled, "ZBTB16-RARA variant of acute promyelocytic leukemia with tuberculosis: a case report and review of literature" [1].
Kim, Min Jin +4 more
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