A 67-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of lymphadenopathy and lymphocytosis. Monoclonal integration of HTLV-I provirus DNA was detected, and a diagnosis of adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) was made. Flow cytometry revealed that the ATL cells expressed CD20 as well as T-cell-associated a
Adult T-cell leukemia diagnosed after 22 years
โ Scribed by Taguchi, Hirokuni; Miyagi, Tatsushi; Miyoshi, Isao
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Volume
- 53
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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