Histopathologic verification of acute leukemia (AL) in a cohort of 463 post-Chernobyl patients from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine

Leukemia Research

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1273-1280

  McCarthy Jr , Philip L ^a   Paltiel, Ora ^b   Maslova, Elena ^c   Kulikov, Sergei ^c,d   Hahn, Theresa ^a   Kopecky, Kenneth J ^e   Drozdova, Vera ^f   Shmatina, Natalya ^g   Tichonova, Ludmilla ^c   Van Hoff, Jack ^h   Gavrilova, Inna ^g   Weinstein, Howard ⁱ  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Data Coordination Office   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HEMATOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^f STATE INSTITUTION NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR RADIATION MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^g Semashko Street 8 220089   (Belarus)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

acute leukemia; acute leukemia, unclassified; acute lymphoid leukemia; acute lymphoid leukemia, unclassified; acute myeloid leukemia; acute myeloid leukemia, unclassified; AL; ALL; ALLU; ALU; AML; AMLU; chronic myeloid leukemia; CML; FAB; French American British

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE; USSR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; BYELARUS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUSSIA; UKRAINE;

EID: 4744356100     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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