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acute leukemia

[ə′kyüt lü′kē·mē·ə]
(medicine)
A severe blood disorder characterized by rapid onset and progress, with anemia and hemorrhagic manifestations; immature forms of leukocytes are predominant.
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The greatest increase was in the acute leukemia track.
Combined Pathology-Driven Algorithmic Testing and Integrated Reporting for Bone Marrow Examination
Flowcytometric immunophenotypic profile of acute leukemia: mansoura experience.
Immunophenotypic characterisation of morphologically diagnosed cases of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML)
Use of Flow Cytometry Immunophenotyping for Diagnosis of Acute Leukemia at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya.
SPECTRUM OF ACUTE LEUKEMIAS AND ABERRANT MARKERS EXPRESSION BASED ON FLOWCYTOMETRY IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE
Reduced intensity conditioning allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for adult acute myeloid leukemia in complete remission - A review from the acute leukemia working party of the EBMT.
Efficacy and Safety of Unmanipulated Haploidentical Related Donor Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Acute leukemia during pregnancy: The Toronto Leukemia Study Group experience with long-term follow-up of children exposed in utero to chemotherapeutic agents.
A rare case of massive hepatosplenomegaly due to acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in pregnancy
Mixed phenotype acute leukemia: clinical and laboratory features and outcome in 100 patients defined according to the WHO 2008 classification.
Flow cytometric immunophenotyping of acute leukaemia with special reference to mixed phenotypic acute leukaemia
Mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is a rare neoplasm which accounts for 2-5% of all leukemia [3, 4] and extramedullary presentation of them is extremely uncommon.
A Rare Case of Extramedullary T/Myeloid Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia with t(1;5)(q23;q33)
Ng et al., "A 17-gene stemness score for rapid determination of risk in acute leukemia," Nature, 2016; DOI: 10.1038/nature20598
Stem cell-based test helps customize treatment of leukemia
The study included 120 children with acute leukemia who were treated in our department between 1995 and 2010.
Ophthalmologic findings in children with leukemia: a single-center study
Although, with CML, blast crisis can occur, making it behave much more like an acute leukemia. Sessions (2007) stated that chronic myeloid leukemia is a stem cell cancer and represents 15-20% of all adult leukemia diagnosed each year.
Have a blast! A different meaning for patients with leukemia
To the best of our knowledge, this is only the second case of therapy-related mixed phenotype acute leukemia, T/myeloid, NOS and the first associated with RCHOP.
Therapy-related T/myeloid mixed phenotype acute leukemia in a patient treated with chemotherapy for cutaneous diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Peripheral blood smear showed a normochromic normocytic anemia with immature cells of leukocyte (blast cell 10%) and was suggestive for acute leukemia.
Management of abnormal uterine bleeding caused by leiomyoma in a patient with acute leukemia: a case report

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