Philadelphia-chromosome-positive T-Lymphoblastic leukemia: Acute leukemia or chronic myelogenous leukemia blastic crisis

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 181-189

  Raanani, Pia ^a,b   Trakhtenbrot, Luba ^a   Rechavi, Gideon ^a   Rosenthal, Esther ^a   Avigdor, Abraham ^a   Brok Simoni, Frida ^a   Leiba, Merav ^a   Amariglio, Ninette ^a   Nagler, Arnon ^a   Ben Bassat, Isaac ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blastic crisis; Chronic myelogenous leukemia; Ph1 chromosome; T lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMATINIB; INTERFERON;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLOGENEIC PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLAST CELL CRISIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME POSITIVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOBLAST;

BLAST CRISIS; CELL LINEAGE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FUSION PROTEINS, BCR-ABL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, PHILADELPHIA-POSITIVE; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 20844443288     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084448     Document Type: Review

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