Acute erythroid leukemia as defined in the World Health Organization classification is a rare and pathogenetically heterogeneous disease

Modern Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1113-1126

  Kasyan, Armen ^a   Medeiros, L Jeffrey ^a   Zuo, Zhuang ^a   Santos, Favio P ^a   Ravandi Kashani, Farhad ^a   Miranda, Roberto ^a   Vadhan Raj, Saroj ^a   Koeppen, Hartmut ^a   Bueso Ramos, Carlos E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute erythroleukemia; acute myeloid leukemia with myelodysplasia related changes; therapy related acute myeloid leukemia; World Health Organization classification

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ERYTHROID LEUKEMIA; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; ERYTHROID CELL; ERYTHROLEUKEMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOSOMY; MONOSOMY 7; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS; SCHOOL CHILD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77955175329     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2010.96     Document Type: Article

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