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Utility of emergent plain X-ray for childhood acute leukemia with bone pain.

Ai ItoTomoo OsumiKentaro FujimoriDaisuke TomizawaMotohiro KatoSatoshi TsujiKimikazu MatsumotoAkira IshiguroOsamu Miyazaki
Published in: Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric Society (2021)
PXR is a useful diagnostic tool to detect possible acute leukemia in patients presenting with bone pain earlier than abnormalities of their peripheral blood cell counts. Our results implied the possibility of having acute leukemia and re-examining PXRs more carefully, even when there are no abnormalities in blood cell counts.
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