Acute lymphoblastic leukemia following severe congenital neutropenia or de novo ALL?

Leukemia Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Valera, Elvis Terci ^a   Brassesco, María Sol ^a   Germeshausen, Manuela ^b   Silveira, Vanessa da Silva ^a   de Paula Queiroz, Rosane Gomes ^a   Roxo, Pérsio ^a   Scrideli, Carlos Alberto ^a   de Menezes, Ullissis Pádua ^a   Ferriani, Virgínia ^a   Tone, Luiz Gonzaga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Childhood leukemia; Congenital neutropenia; Leukemogenesis; MLL rearrangement

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE 2; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN CSF3R; PROTEIN G6PC3; PROTEIN HAX 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOSS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LEUKOPENIA; MOLECULAR PROBE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NEWBORN; OMPHALITIS; PALLOR; PETECHIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE CONGENITAL NEUTROPENIA; SOMATIC MUTATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEUTROPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA;

EID: 67549094663     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2009.03.039     Document Type: Letter

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