Early death in acute leukemia in children

✍ Scribed by Dearth, James ;Salter, Merle ;Wilson, Edward ;Kelly, David ;Crist, William

• Book ID: 102522481
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 326 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-1532
• DOI: 10.1002/mpo.2950110403

✦ Synopsis

Therapy for acute leukemia in children has improved dramatically in recent years so that early death is rare. A subset of patients with extreme elevation of the WBC at diagnosis have been noted to have a higher rate of early death. We reviewed our experience with acute leukemia in children retrospectively over a 10 year period to assess the incidence and outcome of this problem. Nine early deaths occurred in a total of 185 cases (4.9%).