Revista médica de Panamá
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Revista médica de Panamá · May 1993
[Acute leukemias at the Complejo Hospitalario Metropolitano Dr. Arnulfo Arias M. from 1982 to 1990].
The authors studied 60 records of patients from the Social Security Metropolitan Hospital Complex Arnulfo Arias Madrid in whom the final diagnosis was acute lymphoblastic or myeloblastic leukemia. The age, and sex, distribution and the place of origin of the patients, the signs, and symptoms and type of leukemia were determined. The authors discuss the treatment recommended to induce a remission and for prophylaxis of the central nervous system. They study the morbidity and the results of therapy.