Acute promyelocytic leukemia presenting
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Anna Hazani; Yaakov Weidenfeld; Llana Tatarsky; Efraim Bental
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Article
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1988
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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An 11-year-old boy was hospitalized with sudden blindness and sagittal sinus vein thrombosis, which were the presenting signs of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The association of disseminated intravascular clotting (DIC) with APL is well-known, and DIC usually affects the smaller blood vessels.