Article
Phenotypic reversion in acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Nouvelle revue francaise d'hematologie - 1 Jan 1991
Degos L
Abstract excerpt
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a clonal expansion of malignant cells blocked at a specific stage of myeloid differentiation. The disease is associated with a specific translocation between chromosome 17 and chromosome 15 t (15; 17) and with a bleeding diathesis previously attributed to a disseminated intravascular coagulation which is recently also related to a primary fibrinolysis. The high percentage of...
Topics
- Carrier Proteins
- Cell Differentiation
- Gene Rearrangement
- Humans
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute
- Neoplasm Proteins
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid
- Tretinoin
