Unusual profiles of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia with MLL gene rearrangement [9]

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2083-2086

  Kubicka, Malgorzata ^a   Soszynska, Krystyna ^a   Mucha, Barbara ^a   Rafinska, Beata ^a   Kolodziej, Beata ^a   Haus, Olga ^a,b   Styczynski, Jan ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; ASPARAGINASE; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; STEROID; TIOGUANINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN VITRO STUDY; LETTER; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME BANDING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PHENOTYPE; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35148826064     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190701606826     Document Type: Letter

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