Central Nervous System Failure in Patients with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Lymphoid Blast Crisis and Philadelphia Chromosome Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treated with Imatinib (STI-571)

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Isolated central nervous system (CNS) relapse occurred in 5 out of 24 patients (20.8%) with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) lymphoid blast crisis (2), Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) (2) or CML with biphenotypic markers (1) treated on imatinib mesylate (IM) protocols at our institution. CNS relapse occurred despite peripheral blood (5) and bone marrow (3) complete...

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