Acute megakaryoblastic leukaemia: A national clinical and biological study of 53 adult and childhood cases by the Groupe Français d'Hématologie Cellulaire (GFHC)

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-58

  Duchayne, Eliane ^a   Fenneteau, Odile ^b   Pages, Marie Pierre ^c   Sainty, Danielle ^d   Arnoulet, Christine ^d   Dastugue, Nicole ^a   Garand, Richard ^e   Flandrin, Georges ^f  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^c HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

^d INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

^e HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^f HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

M7; Megakaryoblastic leukaemia; OTT MAL; t(1; 22)(q11; q22); WHO classification

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CD14 ANTIGEN; CD15 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD33 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD36 ANTIGEN; CD61 ANTIGEN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; CYTARABINE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; ACUTE MEGAKARYOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; BONE MARROW CELL; CANCER CELL; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 1; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOGENETICS; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANT; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MEGAKARYOPOIESIS; MORPHOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR IMMUNOLOGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLAST CRISIS; BLOOD CELLS; BONE MARROW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SIZE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA, MEGAKARYOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0037232260     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819021000040279     Document Type: Article

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