Clinical relevance of residual disease monitoring by polymerase chain reaction in patients with ALL-1/AF-4 positive-acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 659-664

  Cimino, Giuseppe ^a   Elia, Loredana ^b   Rivolta, Anna ^b   Rapanotti, Maria Cristina ^a   Rossi, Vincenzo ^b   Alimena, Giuliana ^a   Annino, Luciana ^a   Canaani, Eli ^c   Lo Coco, Francesco ^a   Biondi, Andrea ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; Minimal residual disease; RT PCR; t(4,11)

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 4; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 9044230122     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1996.373909.x     Document Type: Article

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