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A study of disseminated intravascular coagulation in acute leukemia reveals markedly elevated D-dimer levels are a sensitive indicator of acute promyelocytic leukemia.
International journal of laboratory hematology - 1 Aug 2017
Shahmarvand N, Oak J S, Cascio M J, Alcasid M, Goodman E, Medeiros B C, Arber D A, Zehnder J L, Ohgami R S
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INTRODUCTION: While the presence of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) has been implicated in worse clinical outcome in acute leukemia, the relationship between different subtypes of acute leukemia and the clinicopathologic features of DIC has not been systematically well studied. METHODS: In this study, we retrospectively reviewed 149 cases of newly diagnosed acute leukemia and assessed the utility of...
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