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Mismatched unrelated cord blood transplantation in a patient with T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia

Leukemia volume 19, pages 679–681 (2005)Cite this article

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T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (T-PLL) is a rare, aggressive postthymic malignancy with a median survival of 7.5 months.1, 2, 3 Conventional chemotherapies such as deoxycoformycin may offer transient responses, but their efficacy is limited,1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and there is currently no approved standard treatment for T-PLL. Here, we report the first patient with T-PLL who was successfully treated with unrelated cord blood (UCB) transplantation as salvage therapy after conventional chemotherapies failed.

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  1. Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan

    T E Tanimoto, A Hirano, K Nagafuji, S Yamasaki, K Kamezaki, K Takase, A Numata, T Miyamoto, T Fukuda & M Harada

  2. The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume Univesity School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

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Tanimoto, T., Hirano, A., Nagafuji, K. et al. Mismatched unrelated cord blood transplantation in a patient with T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia 19, 679–681 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2403669

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