Life expectancy and prognostic factors for survival in patients with polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 755-761

  Passamonti, Francesco ^a   Rumi, Elisa ^a   Pungolino, Ester ^b   Malabarba, Lucia ^a   Bertazzoni, Paola ^a   Valentini, Marina ^b   Orlandi, Ester ^a   Arcaini, Luca ^a   Brusamolino, Ercole ^a   Pascutto, Cristiana ^a   Cazzola, Mario ^a   Morra, Enrica ^b   Lazzarino, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTHEMIA; THROMBOSIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTHEMIA, HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 8344229870     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.06.032     Document Type: Article

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