Chronic myelogenous leukemia terminating in acute megakaryoblastic leukemia. Case report

Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 243-245

  Bourantas, K L ^a,b   Repousis, P ^a   Tsiara, St ^a   Christou, L ^a   Konstantinidou, P ^a   Bai, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia; Chronic myelogenous leukemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ABDOMEN; BLAST CRISIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MEGAKARYOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA;

EID: 0031812957     PISSN: 03929078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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