## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) that transforms to Richter syndrome (RS) frequently show atypical lymphocytes in bone marrow; however, a diagnosis of RS requires confirmation of the presence of sheets of large cells in bone marrow or lymph nodes. ## METH
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells induce anti-apoptotic effects of bone marrow stroma
✍ Scribed by Márk Plander; Peter Ugocsai; Silvia Seegers; Evelyn Orsó; Albrecht Reichle; Gerd Schmitz; Ferdinand Hofstädter; Gero Brockhoff
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 532 KB
- Volume
- 90
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0939-5555
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