Pattern of mortality in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Experience from a single center in Northern India

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 366-369

  Marwaha, Ram Kumar ^a   Kulkarni, Ketan Prasad ^a   Bansal, Deepak ^a   Trehan, Amita ^a  

^a Advanced Pediatrics Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Mortality; Relapse; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; THIOGUANINE DERIVATIVE; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; INDIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINAL ADENOPATHY; MENINGITIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MORTALITY; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77955881860     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3181e0d036     Document Type: Article

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