Incidence of leukemias in children from El Salvador and Mexico City between 1996 and 2000: Population-based data

BMC Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Mejía Aranguré, Juan Manuel ^a   Bonilla, Miguel ^b,c   Lorenzana, Rodolpho ^d   Juárez Ocaña, Servando ^a   de Reyes, Gladys ^b   Pérez Saldivar, María Luisa ^a   González Miranda, Guadalupe ^a   Bernáldez Ríos, Roberto ^a   Ortiz Fernández, Antonio ^e   Ortega Alvarez, Manuel ^a   Martínez García, María del Carmen ^a   Fajardo Gutiérrez, Arturo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

^b Hospital Nacional de Ninos Benjamin Bloom   (El Salvador)

^c University of El Salvador   (El Salvador)

^d Laboratory of Immunopathology   (Guatemala)

^e INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; EL SALVADOR; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; UNITED STATES; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AGE; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; POPULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EL SALVADOR; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MEXICO; POPULATION; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PREVALENCE;

EID: 26844508394     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-33     Document Type: Article

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