Two children are described with acute leukemia in remission who both developed a swinging pyrexia and pathologically identical splenic necrotizing granulomata. No organisms were seen in, or isolated from, either spleen. After splenectomy, systemic symptoms persisted and did not resolve until steroid
Hypocalcemia—a complication of childhood leukemia
✍ Scribed by Norman Jaffe; Byung Soo Kim; Gordon F. Vawter
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 475 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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