Refining the diagnosis and prognostic categorization of acute myeloid leukemia patients with an integrated use of cytogenetic and molecular studies

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 65-71

  Costa, Dolors ^a   Vidal, Anna ^a   Carrió, Ana ^a   Muñoz, Concha ^a   Arias, Amparo ^a   Gómez, Cándida ^a   Berneaga, Daniela ^a   Colomer, Dolors ^a   Rozman, Maria ^a   Pratcorona, Marta ^b   Torrebadell, Montserrat ^b   Díaz Beyá, Marina ^b   Esteve, Jordi ^b   Campo, Elías ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukemia; Chromosomal abnormalities; FLT3 ITD; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Karyotype; Nucleophosmin gene

Indexed keywords

FLT3 LIGAND; NUCLEOPHOSMIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; CD135 ANTIGEN; FLT3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUSION GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOSOMY 7; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISOMY 8; ADOLESCENT; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PROGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FMS-LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 3; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROGNOSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84868706754     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: 14219662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000343616     Document Type: Article

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