%0 Journal Article
%T Characterization of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Subtypes in Moroccan Children
%A Fatima Bachir
%A Sanae Bennani
%A Ali Lahjouji
%A Siham Cherkaoui
%A M'hamed Harif
%A Mohamed Khattab
%A Ilham Nassereddine
%A Saadia Zafad
%A Rajae El Aouad
%J International Journal of Pediatrics
%D 2009
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2009/674801
%X We present the incidence and the immunologic characteristics of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) subsets in Moroccan children. We studied 279 unselected patients below the age of 18 years with newly diagnosed ALL. Cases were classified according to immunophenotype: 216 (77.42%) precursor B-cell phenotype (pB-cell), mature B-cell in 4 (1.43%), and T-cell in 59 (21.15%) cases. The age distribution showed a peak in incidence between 3 and 5 years among the pB-cell ALLs subtype. There was a significantly higher frequency of males in the T-ALL subset and more females in the T-ALL CD10
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijped/2009/674801/