A case of a 16-year-old girl with malignant histiocytosis involving the lymph nodes, bone marrow, peripheral blood, liver, and spleen is described. This patient achieved a complete remission with cyclic quadruple chemotherapy consisting of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone
Chemotherapy of malignant histiocytosis in adults
β Scribed by Michael Alexander; John R. Daniels
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 595 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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