Ann Lab Med.  2016 Jul;36(4):384-386. 10.3343/alm.2016.36.4.384.

Molecular Features of Three Children Diagnosed With Early T-Cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

• Park D
• Kim M
• Kim Y
• Han K
• Lee JW

• KMID: 2373563
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2016.36.4.384

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Adolescent
Child
Flow Cytometry
Gene Rearrangement
Humans
Immunophenotyping
Karyotyping
Male
Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/*diagnosis
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics/metabolism
fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3/genetics
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
FLT3 protein, human
fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Immunophenotyping of early T-cell precursor-ALL bone marrow sample (case 3). (A) CD45/SSC dot plot with the blast population highlighted. (B) FSC/SSC plot of the sample. Blasts are positive for cCD3 (C); CD13, CD117 (D); CD99 (E) and negative for CD1a (E). Please refer to Table 1 for the immunophenptyping results of cases 1 and 2.

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