The development of new techniques such as immuno- phenotyping, cytogenetic investigations and, more recently, molecular studies has considerably increased our diagnostic repertoire and broadened our ideas about the biology of acute leukemias. While immunophenotyping with mono- clonal antibodies has yielded increased diagnostic precision and made it possible to develop a highly reproducible classification of acute leukemias based on cell-biological features, further insights have been gained into the patho- genetic mechanisms involved in leukemogenesis by means of cytogenetic detection of...
The development of new techniques such as immuno- phenotyping, cytogenetic investigations and, more recently, molecular studies has considerably incre...