Morphological and cytochemical findings in 150 cases of T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in adults

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 372-382

  Gassmann, Winfried ^a,g   Löffler, Helmut ^a   Thiel, Eckhard ^b   Ludwig, Wolf Dieter ^c   Schwartz, Stefan ^b   Haferlach, Torsten ^a   Maurer, Jürgen ^b   Rieder, Harald ^e   Fonatsch, Christa ^f   Gökbuget, Nicola ^d   Hoelzer, Dieter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g St Marien Krankenhaus Siegen gem GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute lymphocytic leukaemia; acute T cell leukaemia; cytochemistry; cytology; T lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 8244248793     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1997.d01-2171.x     Document Type: Article

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