Acute promyelocytic leukemia. A childhood cluster

Abstract
Nine children with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) are presented. This series of children represents 7% of all acute leukemias and 21% of acute myelogenous leukemias seen during same period at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital. These figures are much higher than the incidence quoted in other series of childhood leukemia. In addition, most of those children came from a confined geographic area. Two of the patients were younger than 2 years of age. The youngest patient with APL previously reported in the literature was 24 months. Cancer 59:933‐935, 1987.

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