Focal fits during chlorambucil therapy
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Focal fits during chlorambucil therapy.
Introduction Chronic lymphatic leukaemia is a disease of the elderly with a long natural history. Treatment is palliative, with chlorambucil the drug of choice (Livingston and Carter, 1970). The recognized side effects of chlorambucil include nausea, myelosuppression, skin eruptions and pulmonary fibrosis (Stenfert Kroese, 1975), but their incidence is low. Although high doses of chlorambucil a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.55.649.806