ALL-TRANS RETINOIC ACID (ATRA) IN THE TR
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C. S. CHIM; Y. L. KWONG; R. LIANG; Y. C. CHU; C. H. CHAN; L. C. CHAN; K. F. WONG
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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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,