Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Cerebro-Spinal Fluid of a Patient with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia with t(16 ; 21)(p11 ;q22) Translocation by Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 297-302

  Harigae, Hideo ^a,c   Kobayashi, Masaru ^b   Mihara, Akio ^a   Watanabe, Norimichi ^a  

^a Suifu Hospital   (Japan)

^b SRL INC   (Japan)

^c Suifu Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myelogeous leukemia; Allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation; Minimal residual disease; t(16 ; 21)(p11 ; q22) translation; TLS FUS ERG fusion transcript

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; BONE MARROW; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031305065     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.183.297     Document Type: Article

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