Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia in Turkey: Experience of a Single Center in Istanbul

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 240-245

  Pamuk, Ömer Nuri ^a,b   Pamuk, Gülsüm Emel ^a   Soysal, Teoman ^a   Öngören, Şeniz ^a   Başlar, Zafer ^a   Ferhanoǧlu, Burhan ^a   Aydin, Yildiz ^a   Ülkü, Birsen ^a   Aktuǧlu, Gulten ^a   Akman, Nuran ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Varli Apt 25 ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Binet's classification; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Prognosis; Rai's classification; Survival

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMBUCIL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUDARABINE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND CANCER; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TURKEY;

EID: 12144291057     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000053674.03385.B7     Document Type: Article

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