Risk factors for traumatic and bloody lumbar puncture in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

JAMA

Volumn 288, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 2001-2007

  Howard, Scott C ^a,b   Gajjar, Amar J ^b   Cheng, Cheng ^b   Kritchevsky, Stephen B ^b   Somes, Grant W ^b   Harrison, Patricia L ^b   Ribeiro, Raul C ^b   Rivera, Gaston K ^b   Rubnitz, Jeffrey E ^b   Sandlund, John T ^b   De Armendi, Alberto J ^b   Razzouk, Bassem I ^b   Pui, Ching Hon ^b  

^a Barry Longinotti Bldg   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ASPARAGINASE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; METHOTREXATE; PENTOBARBITAL; PETHIDINE; PREDNISONE; PROPOFOL; TENIPOSIDE; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; INFANT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0037164002     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.288.16.2001     Document Type: Article

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