Leukaemia phenotype and ethnicity in children living in the United Arab Emirates

Haematologia

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-12

  Révész, Tamás ^a   Pramathan, Thachillath ^a   Mpofu, Christopher ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b TAWAM HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Childhood; Ethnicity; Leukaemia; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANT; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 0030325662     PISSN: 00176559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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