Unusual leukemia presentations: Case 1. Pulmonary chloroma preceded by leukemia cutis 7 years earlier

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5837-5839

  Lengerke, Claudia ^a   Wirths, Stefan ^a   Kanz, Lothar ^a   Hebart, Holger ^a   Kaiserling, Edwin ^a   Krober, Stefan M ^a   Horger, Marius Stefan ^a   Soennichsen, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHLOROMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY CHLOROMA; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN LEUKEMIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; LEUKEMIA; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, SUBLEUKEMIC; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; SARCOMA, GRANULOCYTIC;

EID: 24944555393     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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