Oligoclonal immunoglobulin heavy-chain and T-cell receptor δ rearrangements persist in a recurrent acute lymphoblastic leukemia with one immunoglobulin κ rearrangement as a clonal marker

Modern Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 819-826

  Stolz, Frank ^a   Panzer, Simon ^b   Fischer, Susanna ^a   Panzer Grümayer, E Renate ^a,c  

^a ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Immunoglobulin; Minimal residual disease; Oligoclonal; PCR; Single cell analysis; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL CLONING; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; DIPLOIDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STEM CELL;

ADOLESCENT; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONE CELLS; DNA; FATAL OUTCOME; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; OLIGOCLONAL BANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; RECURRENCE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032838424     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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