Killing two birds with one stone: BRAF V600E inhibitor therapy for hairy cell leukemia and Langerhans/dendritic cell sarcoma

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1149-

  Subbiah, Vivek ^a   Subbiah, Ishwaria Mohan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; B RAF KINASE INHIBITOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; VEMURAFENIB;

CLONAL VARIATION; DENDRITIC CELL SARCOMA; DISEASE COURSE; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; EXOME; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; LANGERHANS CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS; LANGERHANS CELL SARCOMA; LETTER; METASTATIC MELANOMA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LANGERHANS CELL SARCOMA; LEUKEMIA, HAIRY CELL; PYRIFORM SINUS;

EID: 84880322202     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: 14320584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-013-1681-9     Document Type: Letter

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