Article
Immunophenotypic and age patterns of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Saudi Arabia.
Leukemia research - 1 Jan 1990
Roberts G T, Aur R J, Sheth K V
Abstract excerpt
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common malignancy of childhood in the West, characteristically showing a peak incidence in children aged between two and five years, and being predominantly of the common ALL (cALL) phenotype. In this article, we examine the hypotheses that ALL is relatively less common among childhood malignancies in Saudi Arabia; that the cALL phenotype is uncommon; that T cell ALL...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Age Factors
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Phenotype
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
- Sex Factors
