Peripheral blood cytogenetic studies in hematological neoplasms: Predictors of obtaining metaphases for analysis

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 318-321

  Hussein, Kebede ^a   Ketterling, Rhett P ^a   Hulshizer, Rachael L ^a   Kuffel, Daniel G ^a   Wiktor, Anne E ^a   Hanson, Curtis A ^a   Tefferi, Ayalew ^a   Van Dyke, Daniel L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Chronic myeloid leukemia; Cytogenetics; Leukemia; Multiple myeloma; Myelodysplasia

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLAST CELL; BONE MARROW TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PATIENT; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOPENIA; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPHASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYELOFIBROSIS; MYELOID PROGENITOR CELL; PLASMACYTOMA; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; METAPHASE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 40449132946     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: 16000609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2007.01021.x     Document Type: Article

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