TY - BOOK AU - Abdelhamid Mohamed Fouad AU - Mohamed Abdelmooti Mohamed , AU - Raafat Mohamed Abdelfattah , AU - Thoria Mohamed Abdelhamid , TI - Recent advances in the management of acute promyelocytic leukemia / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Abdelhamid Mohamed Fouad , KW - Acute myeloid leukemia KW - Acute promyelocytic leukemia KW - Arsenic trioxide N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - National Cancer Institute - Department of Oncology-Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) was first identified as a distinct subtype of acute myeloid leukemia in 1957 by leif hillestad . It is called M3 in the French - American - British classification with a variant type referred to as microgranular (M3v in the French - American - British nomenclature ) APL acounts for 10% - 15% of all cases of acute myeloid leukemia with several thousand new cases diagnosed worldwide each year UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -