Second malignancies occurring in patients cured of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are rare but increasingly recognized. There are only three reported cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma complicating ALL in remission. We report here another case of B-cell-type large-cell lymphoma, presentin
Reactive histiocytosis in acute lymphoblastic leukemia and non-hodgkin' s lymphoma
โ Scribed by Der-Cherng Liang; Marie Lin Chu; Chi-Ching Shih
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 686 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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