Autopsy study of granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) in patients with myelogenous leukemia, hiroshima-nagasaki 1949-1969

I. Liu, Paul; Ishimaru, Toranosuke; H. McGregor, Douglas; Okada, Hiromu; Steer, Arthur

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(197304)31:4<948::aid-cncr2820310428>3.0.co;2-n

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Autopsy study of granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) in patients with myelogenous leukemia, hiroshima-nagasaki 1949-1969

Published in Cancer • Apr 1, 1973

Authors:

Paul I. Liu

Toranosuke Ishimaru

Douglas H. McGregor

Abstract

Granulocytic sarcoma (chloroma) was present in 23 of 338 myelogenous leukemia patients autopsied in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during 1949-1969. There was no evidence that granulocytic sarcoma was more frequent among those who received heavy atomic-bomb irradiation, although the incidence of myelogenous...

Subject

Chronic myelogenous leukemia

Medicine

Leukemia

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