Infant juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) with rapid infiltration of multiple organs: Letter to the Editor

Pathology International

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-335

  Kimura, Yoshizo ^a   Sugita, Yasuo ^a   Seki, Rituko ^a   Inada, Hiroko ^a   Arakawa, Fumiko ^a   Kiyasu, Junichi ^a   Takeuchi, Masanori ^a   Hashikawa, Keiko ^a   Aoki, Ryosuke ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BCR ABL PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MERCAPTOPURINE;

ANEMIA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; JUVENILE MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER WEIGHT; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MONOCYTOSIS; MYELOBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SPLEEN WEIGHT; SUCKLING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, JUVENILE; LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION; LIVER; LUNG; SPLEEN;

EID: 77949756763     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2010.02517.x     Document Type: Letter

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