Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia with a four-way variant translocation originating the RBM15-MKL1 fusion gene

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 846-849

  Torres, Lurdes ^a   Lisboa, Susana ^a   Vieira, Joana ^a   Cerveira, Nuno ^a   Santos, Joana ^a   Pinheiro, Manuela ^a   Correia, Cecília ^a   Bizarro, Susana ^a   Almeida, Marta ^a   Teixeira, Manuel R ^a,b  

^a PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia; Complex rearrangement; RBM15 MKL1

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD33 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD61 ANTIGEN; CD7 ANTIGEN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; MYELOPEROXIDASE;

ACUTE MEGAKARYOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; KARYOTYPE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEGAKARYOBLAST; NEUROBLASTOMA; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RBM15 MKL1 GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT; KARYOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, MEGAKARYOBLASTIC, ACUTE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952182934     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22765     Document Type: Article

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