Descriptive epidemiology of de novo acute leukaemia in the Sultanate of Oman

Leukemia Research

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 589-594

  Knox Macaulay, Huxley H M ^a   Brown, Leonard C ^a  

^a Sultan Qaboos University College of Medicine and Health Sciences   (Oman)

Author keywords

Acute leukaemia; Epidemiology; Oman

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARABS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OMAN; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034042012     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2126(00)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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