Acute lymphoblastic leukemic transformation in a patient with chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria: A case report and review of the literature

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 96-99

  Shaheen II, Saad Paul ^a,b   Talwalkar, Sameer S ^a   Simons, Ruth ^a   Yam, Lung ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD19 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HYDROXYUREA; INTERFERON;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CELL CLONE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KARYOTYPING; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MYELOID METAPLASIA; PANCYTOPENIA; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HEMOGLOBINURIA, PAROXYSMAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOFIBROSIS;

EID: 11844276955     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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