HAIR ZINC AND COPPER CONCENTRATIONS AND ZINC - COPPER RATIOS IN PEDIATRIC MALIGNANCIES AND HEALTHY-CHILDREN FROM SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY

DONMA M., DONMA O., TAS M.

BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH, vol.36, no.1, pp.51-63, 1993 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 36 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 1993
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/bf02783779
  • Journal Name: BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.51-63
  • Çukurova University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Twenty-eight healthy and forty-six children with malignancy admitted to the Pediatrics Oncology Clinic and Outpatient Clinic of Dicle University, Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatrics in 1989-1990 were included into this study. The children under investigation were divided into three groups. Group 1 consisted of 28 healthy children. Twenty-eight children with newly diagnosed malignant disease, before the start of treatment, formed Group 2. Group 3 consisted of eight of these 28 children together with 18 other children with malignancy in complete remission.