Hairy cell leukemia: Clinical presentation and long term follow up after treatment with 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine (2-CdA)

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 212-213

  Bilwani, Fareena ^a   Usman, Mohammad ^a   Adil, Salman N ^a   Kakepoto, Ghulam N ^a   Khurshid, Mohammad ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADRIBINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RELAPSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PALLOR; PANCYTOPENIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BONE MARROW CANCER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SPLEEN TUMOR; TIME;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BONE MARROW NEOPLASMS; CLADRIBINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, HAIRY CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 22344441142     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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