Spontaneous remission in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 337-339

  Musashi, Manabu ^a   Abe, Syuiti ^b   Yamada, Toshiyuki ^b   Tanaka, Junji ^a   Gotohda, Yasunari ^a   Maeda, Shiro ^a   Sato, Yasuo ^a   Morioka, Masanobu ^a   Sakurada, Keisuke ^a   Minagawa, Tomonori ^a   Asaka, Masahiro ^a   Miyazaki, Tamotsu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BONE MARROW CELLS; GENES, ABL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031019614     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199701303360504     Document Type: Article

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