Diagnostic value of acute promyelocytic leukaemia flow cytometry immunophenotyping

HAEMA

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 641-643

  Kakkas, Ioannis ^a   Psarra, Katherina ^a   Kapsimali, Violetta ^a   Garofalaki, Maria ^a   Pagoni, Maria ^a   Apostolidis, Ioannis ^a   Karmiris, Themistoklis ^a   Nikiforakis, Emmanouil ^a   Papasteriades, Chryssa ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute promyelocytic leukemia; Flow cytometry; Immunophenotyping

Indexed keywords

CD33 ANTIGEN; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; MORPHOLOGY; PROMYELOCYTE; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 27644471757     PISSN: 11082682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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