Adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma during pregnancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 346, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 2014-2015

  Safdar, Amar ^a   Johnson, Natalie ^a   Gonzalez, Francisco ^a   Busowski, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; HYDROXYUREA; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOMA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SORE THROAT; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOM; T CELL LEUKEMIA; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, ACUTE, HTLV-I-ASSOCIATED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEPSIS;

EID: 0037142010     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200206203462519     Document Type: Letter

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