## Abstract ## BACKGROUND. Children with Down syndrome (DS) have from 10 to 20 times the risk of developing acute leukemia than the general pediatric population. There is mixed evidence for associations between reproductive history or infertility and acute leukemia among children without DS. ## M
Acute leukemia following a malignant teratoma in a child with klinefelter's syndrome. Case report and review of secondary leukemias in children following treatment of a primary neoplasm
β Scribed by Lila Penchansky; John R. Krause
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 506 KB
- Volume
- 50
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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