Single-cell PCR analysis of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain CDR3 region for the diagnosis of leptomeningeal involvement of B-cell malignancies using standard cerebrospinal fluid cytospins

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 83-88

  Hug, Andreas ^a   Storch Hagenlocher, Brigitte ^a   Haas, Juergen ^a   Vogt Schaden, Maria Elisabeth ^a   Goldschmidt, Hartmut ^a   Wildemann, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

B cell leukemia; B cell lymphoma; Cerebrospinal fluid; Complementarity determining region 3; Multiple myeloma; Neoplastic meningitis; Single cell polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MENINGITIS; MENINX; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYCLONAL ACTIVATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 1642528544     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2003.12.012     Document Type: Article

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