Causes of death in adults with acute leukemia

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1976, Pages 259-268

  Chang, Hui Yen ^a   Rodriguez, Victorio ^a   Narboni, Gino ^a   Bodey, Gerald P ^a   Luna, Mario A ^a   Freireich, Emil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; HISTOLOGY; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROORGANISM; SEPTICEMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0017080509     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-197605000-00005     Document Type: Article

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