Acta Medica Iranica (Aug 1999)

ACUTE PROMYELOCYTE LEUKEMIA PRESENTING AS THROMBOTIC CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT

  • E. Baybordi,
  • E. Jahani,
  • M. Khodabandeh.,
  • M. Alimoghadam K. Ghavamzadeh

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 37, no. 3
pp. 165 – 167

Abstract

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Tlte usual manifestation of acute promyelocyte leukemia is hemorrliagic tendency hut thrombotic manifestations may dominate the clinical picture. We report a patient with promyelocyte leukemia which presented as thrombotic cerebrovascular accident and responded to all-transretionic acid and chemotherapy.

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