Conventional cytogenetics and fluorescence in situ hybridization in persistent cytopenias and myelodysplastic syndromes in childhood

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3945-3949

  Touliatou, Vassiliki ^a,c   Kolialexi, A ^a   Tsangaris, G Th ^b   Moschovi, M ^a   Polychronopoulou, S ^c   Mavrou, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^c AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Childhood; Chromosome aberrations; Conventional; Cytogenetic analysis; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Persistent cytopenia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOPENIA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPHASE; MONOSOMY 7; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISOMY 8; ANEMIA; BLOOD; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; NEUTROPENIA; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; NEUTROPENIA; PILOT PROJECTS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 14944368315     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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