Successful treatment of acute myelomonocytic leukaemia with NUP98-HOXD11 fusion transcripts and monitoring of minimal residual disease

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 274-276

  Terui, Kiminori ^a   Kitazawa, Junichi ^a   Takahashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Tohno, Chikako ^a   Hayashi, Yasuhide ^b   Taketani, Takeshi ^b   Taki, Tomohiko ^b   Ito, Etsuro ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myelomonocytic leukaemia; HOXD11; Minimal residual disease; NUP98; T(2; 11)(q31; p15)

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ACUTE MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 2; DISEASE COURSE; GENE FUSION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0037276058     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04052.x     Document Type: Article

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