Article
Acute leukemia after a primary myelodysplastic syndrome: immunophenotypic, genotypic, and clinical characteristics.
Blood - 1 Aug 1991
San Miguel J F, Hernández J M, González-Sarmiento R, González M, Sánchez I, Orfao A, Cañizo M C, López Borrasca A
Abstract excerpt
We studied the nature of blast cells in 41 patients with acute leukemia following a previous primary myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) by a combined multiparameter analysis including morphologic, immunophenotypic, and molecular genetic (Igs, T-cell receptor (TCR)-beta, -gamma, and -delta and the major breakpoint cluster region [M-bcr]) investigations. In addition, the clinical and hematologic characteristics...
Topics
- Acute Disease
- Aged
- Biomarkers
- Bone Marrow
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Genotype
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Constant Regions
- Immunophenotyping
- Leukemia
