High incidence of a second BCR-ABL fusion in chronic myeloid leukemia revealed by interphase cytogenetic analysis on blood and bone marrow smears

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-111

  Cabot, Georges P ^a   Bentz, Martin ^a   Scholl, Claudia ^a   Moos, Marion ^a   Fischer, Konstanze ^a   Lichter, Peter ^b   Döhner, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 22; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 9; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; INTERPHASE; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MALE; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0029984378     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(95)00261-8     Document Type: Article

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