Surgical Approaches to Retrosternal Goiter, When Sternotomy Is Mandatory? National Cancer Institute Experience (NCI), Cairo University, Egypt
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Correlation of karyotype and immunophenotype in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia; experience at the National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt.
PURPOSE To identify chromosomal pattern among the major immunophenotypic subgroups in Egyptian children with ALL, and its correlation with clinical presentation and disease free survival. PATIENTS AND METHODS Cytogenetic and immunophenotypic analysis were done for all patients. Patients received ALL-PNCI-III/98 chemotherapy protocol used at NCI, Cairo University. RESULTS The frequency of ps...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cancer Therapy
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2151-1934,2151-1942
DOI: 10.4236/jct.2016.74033