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Tetraploid Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia with Double PML/RARA Gene Rearrangements Successfully Treated with Alltrans Retinoic Acid

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Toyonaka Municipal Hospital, 1-14-4 chome Shibaharacho, Toyonaka, 560-8565, Osaka, Japan

    Jun Kuyama, Satoru Kosugi, Hironori Take & Tatsuo Matsuyama

  2. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

    You Tsumori

  3. Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Keisuke Aoyama

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Kuyama, J., Tsumori, Y., Aoyama, K. et al. Tetraploid Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia with Double PML/RARA Gene Rearrangements Successfully Treated with Alltrans Retinoic Acid. Int J Hematol 79, 405–406 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1532/IJH97.03150

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