Acute leukemias of ambiguous lineage

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-18

  Béné, Marie C ^a   Porwit, Anna ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Biphenotypic; Immunohistochemistry; Immunophenotype; Natural killer (NK); Undifferentiated

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; MYELOPEROXIDASE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 22; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 9; GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MLL GENE; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTIGENS, CD19; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, BIPHENOTYPIC, ACUTE; LYMPHOCYTES; PEROXIDASE; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84856188221     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: 19301111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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