Article
[DNA aneuploidy in children with acute leukemia: II. Correlation with the phenotype of blasts, clinical picture and course of disease].
Klinische Padiatrie - 1 Jan 2000
Ritter J, Hiddemann W, Wörmann B, Büchner T, Schellong G
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of the cellular DNA content was carried out in 162 children with ALL and 34 children with AML admitted to the university children's hospital Münster between 1979 and 1984. DNA aneuploidies were identified at a similar frequency in ALL (40%) and AML (44%). However, the degree of DNA aneuploidies (DNA-index) was significantly lower in aneuploid AML (median 1.09) than in aneuploid ALL (median 1.19). We...
Topics
- Acid Phosphatase
- Aneuploidy
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
- Child
- Clinical Trials as Topic
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- L-Lactate Dehydrogenase
- Leukemia, Lymphoid
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
