Lineage switch from AML to ALL is an extremely rare phenomenon, and we report the case of an adult diagnosed with AML at 46 years of age who relapsed with ALL. At initial diagnosis, blast cell morphology and immunophenotyping were consistent with the diagnosis of M4-AML. Complete remission was achie
Nelarabine induced complete remission in an adult with refractory T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A case report and review of the literature
β Scribed by Panagiotis Sigalas; Aristomenis-Dimitrios Tourvas; Antonios Moulakakis; Gerasimos Pangalis; Flora Kontopidou
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 111 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0145-2126
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