Immunophenotypic analysis of peripheral T-cell neoplasms: A multiparameter flow cytometric approach

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 512-526

  Jamal, Saba ^b   Picker, Louis J ^c   Aquino, Deborah B ^d   McKenna, Robert W ^d   Dawson, D Brian ^d   Kroft, Steven H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ZIAUDDIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Antigen aberrancy; Flow cytometry; Immunophenotyping; Peripheral T cell lymphoma

Indexed keywords

CD2 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; CD7 ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANTIGENS, CD2; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD5; ANTIGENS, CD7; ANTIGENS, CD8; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0035735802     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/QF6N-VAQW-N74H-4JE2     Document Type: Article

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