RT Journal
A1 Feinstein JA
T1 THree’s company
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2009
FD September 7
VO 163
IS 9
SP 782
OP 782
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.147
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.147
AB 
The 11-year-old girl's parents had taken her to the dentist earlier that week for a root canal that had morphed into a relentless oral infection; on reexamination, prominent lymph nodes had prompted her dentist to draw a complete blood cell count in search of an infection diagnosis. He had called the family and directed them to the emergency department as soon as the outpatient laboratory had processed her results. When she presented to the emergency department, her parents believed that she had an overwhelming bacterial infection necessitating intravenous antibiotics. They did not yet know that her age alone placed her in a high-risk category for leukemia.