c-kit mutation and osteopetrosis-like osteopathy in a patient with systemic mast cell disease

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 131-134

  Reinacher Schick, A ^a   Petrasch, S ^a   Longley, B J ^b   Teschendorf, C ^a   Graeven, U ^a   Schmiegel, W ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

c kit; Mast cell disease; Mastocytosis; Osteopetrosis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2A INTERFERON; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PREDNISONE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; STEM CELL FACTOR;

AGED; ALBERS SCHOENBERG DISEASE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; GENE MUTATION; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; MALE; MAST CELL; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYSTEMIC MASTOCYTOSIS; URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA;

AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MASTOCYTOSIS; MUTATION; OSTEOPETROSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031693239     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002770050428     Document Type: Article

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