Normal lymphocytes from leukemic samples as an internal quality control for fluorescence intensity in immunophenotyping of acute leukemias

Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Ratei, Richard ^a,i   Karawajew, Leonid ^a   Lacombe, Francis ^b   Jagoda, Krystyna ^c   Del Poeta, Giovanni ^d   Kraan, Jaco ^e   De Santiago, Maria ^f   Kappelmayer, János ^g   Björklund, Elisabeth ^h   Ludwig, W D ^a   Gratama, Jan ^e   Orfao, Alberto ^f  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f Centro de Investigacion del Cancer   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^h KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

ⁱ Section of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Internal quality control; Leukemia immunophenotyping; Normal lymphocytes; Quantitative flow cytometry

Indexed keywords

CD19 ANTIGEN; CD22 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD7 ANTIGEN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; T CELL LEUKEMIA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOCYTES; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 30444453112     PISSN: 15524949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.20075     Document Type: Article

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