Pseudotumor Cerebri Caused by All-Trans-Retinoic Acid Treatment for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
β Scribed by Yu-Chen Yeh; Huei-Fen Tang; I-Mo Fang
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 50
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-5155
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Acute promyelocytic leukemia is characterized by the reciprocal translocation of chromosomes 15 and 17. All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) efficiently induces differentiation of the abnormal promyelocytes. In this study, we had used ATRA as the primary induction therapy for 17 newly diagnosed patients,
## Abstract ## Background Due to severe side effects in virtually all children treated with a standard dose of 45 mg/m^2^/day allβ__trans__βretinoic acid (ATRA) for acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) the AMLβBFM study group reduced the dosage to 25 mg/m^2^/day. For the lack of data on the use of A