| Literature DB >> 1958753 |
W Fiedler1, H J Weh, W Zeller, C Fonatsch, J Hillion, C Larsen, B Wörmann, D K Hossfeld.
Abstract
Three patients with centrocytic/centroblastic lymphoma developed a rapidly fatal leukemic transformation of the disease after a transient remission. At the time of transformation, cytogenetic analysis revealed in all patients abnormal karyotypes with coexistence of t (14; 18) and t (8; 22). Molecular analysis in one patient showed rearrangement of the BCL 2 oncogene and c-myc m-RNA expression. These findings imply that translocation t (14; 18) was present during the first phase of the disease and that acquisition of translocation t (8; 22) was accompanied by leukemic transformation.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1958753 DOI: 10.1007/bf01698379
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Hematol ISSN: 0939-5555 Impact factor: 3.673