Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: Molecular pathogenesis informs current approaches to therapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Volumn 2, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Dvorak, Christopher C ^a   Loh, Mignon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Hematopoietic cell transplantation; Immunotherapy; Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia; Minimal residual disease; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906076393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2014.00025     Document Type: Review

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