AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2017.87597
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Testicular and Cutaneous Relapse in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Treated with All-trans Retinoic Acid and Chemotherapy

Esra Turan Erkek1 Nazli Demir1 Gulkan Ozkan1 Akif Selim Yavuz1
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1 Department of Hematology, Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Submitted: 13 May 2017 | Accepted: 13 July 2017 | Published: 26 July 2017
© 2017 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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