 Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with atypical breakpoints in the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) and retinoic acid receptor-alpha (RARA) genes represents a rare leukemic event, which occurs preferentially in patients with variant types of the PML/RARA fusion gene.     ///    A case of a novel PML/RARA short fusion transcript with truncated transcription variant 2 of the RARA gene.. 