A new polymerase chain reaction-based method for the detection of T- cell clonality in patients with possible cutaneous T-cell lymphoma

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 158-162

  Guitart, Joan ^a   Kaul, Karen ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Evanston Northwestern Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LYMPHOMA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

EID: 0033056042     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.135.2.158     Document Type: Article

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