Remission in hairy cell leukemia-variant following splenic radiotherapy alone

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 395-398

  Sgarabotto, Dino ^a   Vianello, Fabrizio ^a   Radossi, Paolo ^a   Poletti, Alessandro ^a   Sotti, Guido ^a   Stefani, Piero M ^a   Sartori, Roberto ^a   Girolami, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hairy cell leukemia variant; Remission; Splenic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 0030819547     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10428199709051790     Document Type: Article

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