Phenotypic changes in acute myeloid leukaemia: implications in the detection of minimal residual disease.

doi:10.1136/jcp.49.1.15

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Phenotypic changes in acute myeloid leukaemia: implications in the detection of minimal residual disease.

Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Jan 1996

Macedo A, San Miguel J F, Vidriales M B, López-Berges M C, García-Marcos M A, Gonzalez M, Landolfi C, Orfão A

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AIM: To explore the role of phenotypic changes as possible limiting factors in the immunological detection of minimal residual disease in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). METHODS: 20 relapses were evaluated, with special attention to changes in the criteria used for the definition of...

Topics

Acute Disease
Antigens, CD
Humans
Immunophenotyping
Leukemia, Myeloid
Neoplasm, Residual
Phenotype
Recurrence

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