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Medicina: Oncoematologia pediatrica: Leucemia linfoblastica acuta
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| A marked decrease in the number of granulocytes. Granulocytes are a type of leukocytes. Granulocytes are part of the innate, somewhat non specific infection-fighting immune system. They do not respond exclusively to specific antigens, as do B-cells and T-cells. Granulocytopenia or, as it is also called, agranulocytosis results in a syndrome of frequent chronic bacterial infections of the skin, lungs, throat etc. Although “agranulocytosis” literally means no granulocytes, there may, in fact, be some granulocytes but too few of them, i.e. granulocytopenia. Granulocytopenia can be genetic and inherited or it can be acquired as, for example, an aspect of leukemia. |
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| http://www.medterms.com/script/main/Art.asp?li=MNI&ArticleKey=8817 |
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| Microbiologically documented infection was recorded in 59% of the fever and granulocytopenia episodes. |
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| http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepage/9355.htm |
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| agranulocytosis |
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| Pediatric Oncohematology |
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| leukopenia |
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| neutropenia |
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| Granulozytopenie |
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| granulocitopenia |
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| The term neutropenia is mostly used interchangeably with granulocytopenia within this domain, although this is not precise, since neutrophils are one type of granulocytes. |
