Sixteen children with high risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who had one or more of the following risk factors: white cell count over 50 x 10g/liter, mediastinal mass, age under 2 or over 10 years, extramedullary involvement, or T-cell markers, were treated by a new protocol. All attained comp
Lymphomatous presentation of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A subgroup at high risk of early treatment failure
β Scribed by Peter G. Steinherz; Stuart E. Siegel; W. Archie Bleyer; John Kersey; Ronald Chard Jr; Peter Coccia; Sanford Leikin; John Lukens; Robert Neerhout; Mark Nesbit; Denis R. Miller; Gregory Reaman; Harland Sather; Denman Hammond
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 713 KB
- Volume
- 68
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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