Infection-related mortality in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: an analysis of infectious deaths on UKALL2003

O’Connor, David; Bate, Jessica; Wade, Rachel; Clack, Rachel; Dhir, Sunita; Hough, Rachael; Vora, Ajay; Goulden, Nick; Samarasinghe, Sujith

doi:10.1182/blood-2014-03-560847

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Infection-related mortality in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: an analysis of infectious deaths on UKALL2003

Published in Blood • Jun 6, 2014

Authors:

David O’Connor

Jessica Bate

Rachel Wade

Abstract

Although infection is the major cause of treatment-related mortality (TRM) in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, factors associated with infection-related mortality (IRM) are poorly understood. To address this, we report an analysis of all 75 cases of IRM in the United Kingdom Childhood Acute L...

Subject

Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Medicine

Acute lymphocytic leukemia

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