Allergy and acute leukaemia in children with Down syndrome: A population study. Report from the Mexican inter-institutional group for the identification of the causes of childhood leukaemia

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2334-2338

  Nunez Enriquez J C ^a   Fajardo Gutierrez A ^a   Buchan Duran E P ^a   Bernaldez Rios R ^b   Medina Sanson A ^c   Jimenez Hernandez E ^d   Amador Sanchez, R ^b   Penaloza Gonzalez J G ^e   Paredes Aguilera, R ^f   Alvarez Rodriguez, F J ^f   Bolea Murga, V ^f   de Diego Flores Chapa, J ^g   Flores Lujano, J ^b   Bekker Mendez, V C ^b   Rivera Luna, R ^f   del Carmen Rodriguez Zepeda, M ^b   Rangel Lopez A ^b   Dorantes Acosta, E M ^c   Nunez Villegas N ^d   Velazquez Avina M M ^e   Torres Nava, J R ^f   Reyes Zepeda, N C ^g   Cardenas Cardos R ^f   Flores Villegas, L V ^g   Martinez Avalos, A ^f   Salamanca Gomez F ^b   Gorodezky, C ^f   Arellano Galindo, J ^c   Mejia Arangure J M ^b   more..

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^c HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

^d Hospital General Dr Gaudencio Gonzalez Garza   (Mexico)

^e HOSPITAL JUÁREZ DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^f SECRETARÍA DE SALUD   (Mexico)

^g Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de Los Trabajadores Del Estado   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MEXICO; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICO; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA;

EID: 84884176276     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.237     Document Type: Article

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