Minimal residual disease diagnostics in acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Need for sensitive, fast, and standardized technologies

Blood

Volumn 125, Issue 26, 2015, Pages 3996-4009

  Van Dongen, Jacques J M ^a   Van Der Velden, Vincent H J ^a   Brüggemann, Monika ^b   Orfao, Alberto ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PROCEDURES;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA;

EID: 84933505109     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-03-580027     Document Type: Article

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