A microgranular variant of acute promyelocytic leukemia with atypical morpho-cytochemical features and an early myeloid immunophenotype

Leukemia Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 575-580

  Stasi, Roberto ^a,b   Bruno, Antonio ^a   Venditti, Adriano ^a   Del Poeta, Giovanni ^a   Aronica, Germano ^a   Cox, Maria Christina ^a   Maffei, Laura ^a   Catalano, Gianfranco ^a   Zangrilli, Daniela ^a   Amadori, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute promyelocytic leukemia; Asynchronous differentiation; Cytochemistry; Immunophenotype; Morphology

Indexed keywords

CD2 ANTIGEN; CD33 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD9 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030763901     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2126(97)00094-5     Document Type: Article

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