Acute leukaemia in siblings.
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Acute leukaemia in siblings.
Unequivocal lymphoblastic leukaemia in a 4-year-old boy was followed 3 years later by equally unequivocal myeloblastic leukaemia in his 20-year-old brother. The boy achieved complete remission and remains well more than 6 years later whereas his brother failed to respond to treatment and died after 5 months. The parents and 3 remaining siblings showed no recognized features suggesting a constit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.56.654.271