CD2+ tetraploid acute promyelocytic leukemia variant with double (15;17) translocations

International Journal of Hematology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-31

  Kaito, Ken ^a,b   Otsubo, Hiroko ^b   Dobashi, Nobuaki ^b   Usui, Noriko ^b   Kobayashi, Masayuki ^b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

APL; CD2; Double translocations; Hypogranular variant; Tetraploidy

Indexed keywords

CD2 ANTIGEN; CD33 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUTROPENIA; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TETRAPLOIDY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANTIGENS, CD2; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, PROMYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLOIDIES; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 12844251243     PISSN: 09255710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/IJH97.04104     Document Type: Article

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