FLT3 internal tandem duplication in childhood acute myeloid leukaemia: Association with hyperleucocytosis in acute promyelocytic leukaemia

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-92

  Arrigoni, Paolo ^a   Beretta, Chiara ^a   Silvestri, Daniela ^b   Rossi, Vincenzo ^a   Rizzari, Carmelo ^a   Valsecchi, Maria Grazia ^b   Cazzaniga, Giovanni ^a   Biondi, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Childhood AML; Childhood APL; FLT3 ITD; M3 variant

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FMS-LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 3; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037219507     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04032.x     Document Type: Article

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