ALL-TRANS-RETINOIC ACID AND PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI IN A YOUNG-ADULT WITHACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA - A POSSIBLE DISEASE ASSOCIATION

Authors
VISANI G BONTEMPO G MANFROI S PAZZAGLIA A DALESSANDRO R TURA S
Citation
G. Visani et al., ALL-TRANS-RETINOIC ACID AND PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI IN A YOUNG-ADULT WITHACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA - A POSSIBLE DISEASE ASSOCIATION, Haematologica, 81(2), 1996, pp. 152-154
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Hematology
Journal title
Haematologica → ACNP
ISSN journal
03906078
Volume
81
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
152 - 154
Database
ISI
SICI code
0390-6078(1996)81:2<152:AAAPCI>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Pseudotumor cerebri or idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a neuro logical syndrome characterized by signs and symptoms of intracranial h ypertension without clinical or radiological evidence of infective or space occupying lesions. Iatrogenic factors are frequent; in particula r, cases of pseudotumor cerebri associated with all-trans-retinoic aci d treatment in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) have been frequently described in pediatric patients. We report on a case observed in an o lder patient (young adult age) and give diagnostic and therapeutic gui delines.