Double minute chromosomes and myelodysplastic syndrome: A case report and literature review

Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 94-96

  Keung, Yi Kong ^a   Cobos, Everardo ^a   Morgan, David ^a   Whitehead, Robert P ^a   Tonk, Vijay ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CYTOGENETICS; DOUBLE MINUTE CHROMOSOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ARREST; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

AGED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES;

EID: 0030746279     PISSN: 01654608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4608(96)00340-8     Document Type: Article

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