Clinical implications of recurring chromosomal and associated molecular abnormalities in acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Seminars in Hematology - Tập 37 Số 4 - Trang 381-395 - 2000
Adolfo A. Ferrando1, A. Thomas Look1
1From the Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

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