## Abstract We describe an elderly patient with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), whose leukemic cells expressed CD56 antigen at relapse but not at diagnosis. Chromosome analysis revealed that blasts with t(8;15;17)(q24.1;q22;q11.2) increased from 4 of 20 cells (20%) at first relapse to 10 of 14
Late relapse of acute promyelocytic leukemia in a patient with no maintenance therapy
โ Scribed by Huichun Zhan; Roy Rajasree; Linda Russo; Dilip Patel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 237 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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