Article
Near-triploid and near-tetraploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia of childhood.
Blood - 1 Aug 1990
Pui C H, Carroll A J, Head D, Raimondi S C, Shuster J J, Crist W M, Link M P, Borowitz M J, Behm F G, Land V J
Abstract excerpt
Cytogenetic and DNA flow cytometric analyses of leukemic cells from 1,971 children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) identified stem lines with modal chromosome numbers greater than 65 in 26 patients (1.3%). Near-triploidy (66 to 73 chromosomes) was found in six cases and near-tetraploidy (82 to 94 chromosomes) in 20. A striking morphologic finding was the presence of clumped chromatin with...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA
- Female
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Karyotyping
- Male
- Phenotype
- Ploidies
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
