"Leukemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A progressive, malignant disease of the blood-forming organs, characterized by distorted proliferation and development of leukocytes and their precursors in the blood and bone marrow. Leukemias were originally termed acute or chronic based on life expectancy but now are classified according to cellular maturity. Acute leukemias consist of predominately immature cells; chronic leukemias are composed of more mature cells. (From The Merck Manual, 2006)
| Descriptor ID |
D007938
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.557.337
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| Concept/Terms |
Leukemia- Leukemia
- Leukemias
- Leucocythaemia
- Leucocythaemias
- Leucocythemia
- Leucocythemias
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leukemia" by people in Profiles.
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Age-related differences in disease characteristics and clinical outcomes in polycythemia vera. Leuk Lymphoma. 2013 Sep; 54(9):1989-95.
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Cytologic findings of acute leukemia in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. Diagn Cytopathol. 2013 Jul; 41(7):613-6.
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Novel insights into the biology of myelodysplastic syndromes: excessive apoptosis and the role of cytokines. Int J Hematol. 1996 Jun; 63(4):265-78.
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Neoplasms metastatic to the heart: review of 3314 consecutive autopsies. Am J Cardiovasc Pathol. 1990; 3(3):195-8.
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An approach to cutaneous changes caused by hematologic malignancies. Dermatol Clin. 1989 Jul; 7(3):467-79.
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Advances in flow cytometry for diagnostic pathology. Lab Invest. 1987 Nov; 57(5):453-79.
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Isotype switching in human B lymphocyte malignancies occurs by DNA deletion: evidence for nonspecific switch recombination. J Immunol. 1987 Aug 15; 139(4):1326-35.
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Neuroleukin: a lymphokine product of lectin-stimulated T cells. Science. 1986 Oct 31; 234(4776):574-81.
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Phase II study of combination chemotherapy with etoposide and amsacrine in relapsed adult leukemia. Cancer Treat Rep. 1986 Apr; 70(4):535.
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A human B cell differentiation antigen selectively expressed on mature B cells identified by a monoclonal antibody (HB-2). Hum Immunol. 1985 Aug; 13(4):253-64.