The importance of immunophenotyping by flow cytometry in distinction between hematogones and B lymphoblasts

• Main Authors: Aline B. Wohlfahrt (Author), Laura Hannel (Author), Liliane Z. Oliveira (Author), Pâmela B. Soares (Author), José Edson P. Silva (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica, 2015-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hematogones are normal B-lineage lymphoid precursors in the bone marrow. B lymphoblasts are immature neoplastic cells present in patients with precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). Hematogones and B lymphoblasts share characteristics, such as morphological similarity often indistinc...