Diagnosis of Adult Mastocytosis: Role for Bone Marrow Analysis

Laboratory Hematology Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 388-398

  Escribano, Luis ^a   Garcia Montero, Andrés ^b   Sanchez Muñoz, Laura ^a   Teodosio, Cristina ^b   Alvarez Twose, Ivan ^a   Jara Acevedo, Maria ^b   Morgado, JoséMario ^a   Almeida, Julia ^b   Orfao, Alberto ^b  

^a HOSPITAL VIRGEN DE LA SALUD   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bone marrow histology; Diagnosis; Flow cytometry; Immunophenotype; KIT mutation; Mast cell cytomorphology; Mast cells; Mastocytosis; Prognosis; Tryptase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865541924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444398595.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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