Abstract
We describe a patient with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia in whom chromosomal analysis showed a 8,21 (q22;q22) translocation and who entered complete remission after one course of chemotherapy. During the post-chemotherapy aplastic phase blood-derived hemopoietic circulating system cells were collected by continuous flow aphereses. Chromosomal analysis on the collected cells and on colonies (CFU-GM grown in agar) showed the same anomaly as was present at diagnosis in about 30% of those analyzed. This confirms the persistence of the malignant clone in the early phase of the clinical remission in acute nonlymphocytic leukemia.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 210-212 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Acta Haematologica |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 1989 |
Keywords
- complete remission
- leukemia acute nonlymphocytic
- peripheral blood stem cells
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hematology