Substituting dexamethasone for prednison
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Craig A. Hurwitz; Lewis B. Silverman; Marshall A. Schorin; Luis A. Clavell; Virg
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Background: The authors report the occurrence of fatal or near-fatal sepsis in 16 of 38 children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) treated with a new induction regimen that differed from its predecessor by the substitution of dexamethasone for prednisone. ## Methods: The