Two siblings who developed adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) with unusual clinical courses are presented. The brother showed spontaneous remissions at the beginning stage of the disease of 6 years' duration, and the sister remains free of complaints for 6 years without chemotherapy. The patients and 2 of
Variation in the clinical courses of adult T-cell leukemia
β Scribed by Fumio Kawano; Kazunari Yamaguchi; Hiromichi Nishimura; Hiroyuki Tsuda; Kiyoshi Takatsuki
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 694 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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