Disappearance of pH1-Positive Cells in Four Patients with Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia after Chemotherapy, Irradiation and Marrow Transplantation from an Identical Twin

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 300, Issue 7, 1979, Pages 333-337

  Fefer, Alexander ^a   Cheever, Martin A ^a   Thomas, E Donnall ^a   Boyd, Cheryl ^a   Ramberg, Robert ^a   Glucksberg, Harold ^a   Buckner, C Dean ^a   Storb, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; HEREDITY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; RADIOTHERAPY; THERAPY; ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DONOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MALE; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; PREGNANCY; TWINS;

BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BUSULFAN; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, 21-22 AND Y; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; PREGNANCY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TWINS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0018654774     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197902153000702     Document Type: Article

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