Nutritional status of children during treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the Central American Pediatric Hematology Oncology Association (AHOPCA): Preliminary data from Guatemala

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 502-505

  Antillon, Federico ^a   De Maselli, Tania ^a   Garcia, Tatiana ^a   Rossi, Emanuela ^b   Sala, Alessandra ^b  

^a Unidad Nacional de Oncologia Pediatrica   (Guatemala)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Low income countries; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SCHOOL CHILD; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37549072265     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21398     Document Type: Article

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