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Acute leukemia, usually lymphoblastic, in children causes radiographic skeletal changes in nearly half of the cases, and osteo-articular symptoms in a smaller but still significant number of patients. Such symptoms may represent the onset of infantile leukemia.
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Campanacci, M. (1999). Leukemia. In: Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3846-5_34
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