Role of immunophenotyping in characterisation of blast crisis of chronic myeloid leukemia - A study of 25 cases

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-17

  Padmanabhan, Vijayalakshmi ^a   Varma, Neelam ^a   Dash, Sumitra ^a   Varma, Subhash ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Blast crisis; Chronic myeloid leukemia; Immunophenotyping; Lineage heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL CRISIS; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADULT; BLAST CRISIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0029688663     PISSN: 03774929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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