The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics (Oct 1999)

Relationship between high leukocyte count and cell size in childhood acute myeloblastic leukemia

  • L Olcay,
  • U Ertem,
  • H Okur,
  • I Etikan,
  • A M Tuncer

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 41, no. 4

Abstract

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In order to determine the significance of cell size together with high leukocyte count (>30x10(9)/L) in acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML), we evaluated the percentages of small, medium and large cells in 33 children with AML. All of the 10 patients with a high leukocyte count and 14 of the 23 patients with a low leukocyte count (