Clinical progression and outcome of patients with monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1087-1091

  Fung, Sarah S ^a   Hillier, Kortney L ^a   Leger, Chantal S ^a,b   Sandhu, Irwin ^a   Vickars, Linda M ^a,b   Galbraith, Paul F ^a,b   Li, Charles H ^a,b   Leitch, Heather A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CLL; Clonal lymphocytosis; MBL; Monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPENIA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MONOCLONAL B CELL LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34347358547     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190701321277     Document Type: Article

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