Detection of a Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg cell specific immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in the serum DNA of a patient with Hodgkin's disease

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 528-531

  Kornacker, M ^a   Jox, A ^a   Vockerodt, M ^a   Tesch, H ^a   Bohlen, H ^a   Diehl, V ^a   Wolf, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Department of Internal Medicine I ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Hodgkin's disease; Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement; Minimal residual disease; PCR; Serum DNA

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHLORMETHINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REED STERNBERG CELL;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; REED-STERNBERG CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032870829     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1999.01564.x     Document Type: Article

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