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d) Kusumakumari P, Ajithkumar TV, Hariharan S, et al. Intensive chemotherapy in children with stage IV neuroblastoma. Indian J Pediatr.1999; 66:867-72.

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g) Agarwala S, Srinivas M, Bajpai M, et al. Effect of tumor resection on survival in neuroblastoma patients: outcomes from aiims-neuroblastoma-96 trial [abstract]. Pediatr Blood Cancer.2006;47:366

h) Bansal D, Trehan A, Marwaha RK. Profile and outcome of 122 children with neuroblastoma with conventional chemotherapy: experience from a tertiary care center in North India [abstract]. Pediatr Blood Cancer.2005;45:479.

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j) Dalvi R, Vohra R. Profile & outcome in neuroblastoma—an Indian experience [abstract]. Pediatric Blood Cancer.2003;41:380.

k) Biswas G, P. Kurkure, S. Banavali, S. Achrekar, P. Kulkarni, R. Bhagwat, L. Sharma. Challenges in the management of advanced neuroblastoma: Experience at Tata Memorial hospital, Mumbai, India. J Clin Oncol 2004;22(14S):8562.

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