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Transient leukemia in newborns with Down syndrome
1 Jan 2004
Abstract excerpt
Children with Down syndrome (DS) have a 10- to 20-fold increased risk of developing leukemia, particularly acute megakaryocytic leukemia. Newborns with DS or trisomy 21 mosaicism may exhibit a particularly unique form of leukemia that historically has been associated with a high rate of spontaneous remission. This transient leukemia (TL) has been shown to be a clonal proliferation of blast cells exhibiting...
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