Rare Initial Presentation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia as Facial Palsy

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2018; 39(04): 555-557
DOI: 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_52_17

Letters to Editor

Shilpi Budhiraja

Departments of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

,

Prem Sagar

Departments of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

,

Madhu Rajeshwari

Departments of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

,

Rajeev Kumar

Departments of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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