Demonstration of frequent occurrence of clonal T cells in the peripheral blood of patients with primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma

Blood

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1636-1642

  Muche, J Marcus ^a   Lukowsky, Ansgar ^a   Asadullah, Khusru ^a   Gellrich, Sylke ^a   Sterry, Wolfram ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SKIN LYMPHOMA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0030873514     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v90.4.1636.1636_1636_1642     Document Type: Article

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