Spontaneous remission of acute myeloid leukemia after infection and blood transfusion associated with hypergammaglobulinaemia

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 189-193

  Mitterbauer, M ^a   Fritzer Szekeres, M ^b   Mitterbauer, G ^b   Simonitsch, I ^b   Knobl P ^a   Rintelen, C ^a   Schwarzinger, I ^b   Haas, O A ^c   Silberbauer, K ^d   Frey, K ^e   Bibus, B ^e   Pabinger, I ^a   Radaszkiewicz, T ^b   Lechner, K ^a   Jaeger, U ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^d KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Austria)

^e KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukemia; Hypergammaglobulinemia; Spontaneous remission

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW; CANCER INFILTRATION; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFECTION; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LYMPH NODE; MALE; PLASMA CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TUMOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 2 SUBUNIT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 10544233368     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002770050226     Document Type: Article

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