Prognostic significance of blasts in the cerebrospinal fluid without pleiocytosis or a traumatic lumbar puncture in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Experience of the Dutch Childhood Oncology Group

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2332-2336

  Te Loo, D Maroeska W M ^a   Kamps, Willem A ^a   Van Der Does Van Den Berg, Anna ^a   Van Wering, Elisabeth R ^a   De Graaf, Siebold S N ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FOLINIC ACID; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BLAST CELL CRISIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MENINGIOMA; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUNCTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLAST CRISIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 33744786817     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.03.9727     Document Type: Article

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