cytes and platelets and by possible residual ctfeets
on hemopoiesis indicated by a Lag in recovery of
blood elements ta the levels of the anes posed population. The development of a fatal case af leu.
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hemoglobin, and platelet counts. Since a case of
leukemia was found in 1972, such measurements
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provided by the early acute depression ofteuko-
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