British Journal of Haematology 2002: Vol 119 Table of Contents

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BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY
Volume 119, Issue 1, October 2002
IMAGES IN HAEMATOLOGY
Superior vena cava syndrome and hypercalcaemia in a patient with a primary
mediastinal B-cell lymphoma secreting parathyroid hormone-related protein
L.-T. Hsiao, T.-]. Chiou, .-T. Yu and P.-M. Chen
Intravascular lymphomatosis of the prostate gland
C. S. Chim and F. Loong
REVIEWS
Combination therapy with imatinib mesylate (STI571): synopsis of
in vitro studies
J. Topaly, W. J. Zeller and S. Fruehauf
STI-571 in chronic myelogenous leukaemia
A. S. Tsao, H. Kantarjian and M. Talpaz
ANNOTATION
Haematological care of the Jehovah's Witness patient
J. C. W. Marsh and D. H. Bevan
HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY
Bone marrow cyclooxygenase-2 levels are elevated in chronic-phase chronic
myeloid leukaemia and are associated with reduced survival
F. J. Giles, H. M. Kantarjian, B. N. Bekele, J. E. Cortes, S. Faderl,
D. A. Thomas, T. Manshouri, A. Rogers, M. J. Keating, M. Talpaz,
S. O'Brien and M. Albitar
Low expression of interferon regulatory factor-1 and identification of novel exons
skipping in patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia
D. Tzoanopoulos, M. Speletas, K. Arvanitidis, C. Veiopoulou, S. Kyriaki, G. Thyphronitis,
P. Sideras, G. Kartalis and K. Ritis
Myeloma clonotypic B cells are hampered in their ability to undergo B-cell
differentiation in vitro
]. E. J. Guikema, E. Vellenga, M. H. C. Bakkus and N. A. Bos
Tumoral non-amyloidotic monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain deposits
(‘aggregoma’): presenting feature of B-cell dyscrasia in three cases with
immunohistochemical and biochemical analyses
A. Rostagno, G. Frizzera, L. Ylagan, A. Kumar, J]. Ghiso and G. Gallo
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70 CD106 and activated-CD29 are expressed on myelomatous bone marrow
plasma cells and their downregulation is associated with tumour
progression
R. Luque, J. A. Garcia-Trujillo, C. Camara, A. Moreno, P. Eiras, G. Roy, L. M. Villar,
M. Lombardia, J. A. Brieva, A. Bootello and E. Roldan
Randomized, dose-finding study of darbepoetin alfa in anaemic patients with
lymphoproliferative malignancies
M. Hedenus, S. Hansen, K. Taylor, C. Arthur, B. Emmerich, C. Dewey,
D. Watson, G. Rossi and A. Osterborg on behalf of the Darbepoetin alfa 990114
Study Group
Prognosis of myelodysplasic patients: non-parametric multiple regression analysis
of populations stratified by mean corpuscular volume and marrow myeloblast
number
G. B. Tennant, A. I. Al-Sabah and A. K. Burnett
97 Molecular and flow cytometric characterization of the CD4 and CD8 T-cell
repertoire in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome
]. J. Melenhorst, R. Eniafe, D. Follmann, R. Nakamura, M. Kirby
and A. J. Barrett
Short reports 106 Imatinib mesylate has limited activity against the central nervous system
involvement of Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
due to poor penetration into cerebrospinal fluid
N. Takayama, N. Sato, S. G. O'Brien, Y. Ikeda and S.-i. Okamoto
109 Mutation in the ATP-binding site of BCR-ABL in a patient with chronic myeloid
leukaemia with increasing resistance to STI571
C. Barthe, M.-j. Gharbi, V. Lagarde, C. Chollet, P. Cony-Makhoul, J. Reiffers,
]. M. Goldman, J. V. Melo and F. X. Mahon
Identification and characterization of a novel gene encoding a SEREX antigen
in chronic myeloid leukaemia
S. A. Rogers, D. J. Bowen, M. Ling, P. Thomson, Z. Wang and S. H. Lim
Low blood dendritic cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia patients correlates
with loss of CD34*°/CD38° primitive haematopoietic progenitors
M. Mohty, D. Isnardon, N. Vey, F. Briére, D. Blaise, D. Olive
and B. Gaugler
Frequent co-expression of HoxA9 and Meis1 genes in infant acute lymphoblastic
leukaemia with MLL rearrangement
T. Imamura, A. Morimoto, M. Takanashi, S. Hibi, T. Sugimoto, E. Ishii
and S. Imashuku
Mast cell infiltration correlates with poor prognosis in Hodgkin's lymphoma
D. Molin, A. Edstrém, I. Glimelius, B. Glimelius, G. Nilsson, C. Sundstrém
and G. Enblad
Pure red cell aplasia due to parvovirus following treatment with CHOP
and rituximab for B-cell lymphoma
K. W. Song, P. Mollee, B. Patterson, W. Brien and M. Crump
128 Response to thalidomide in chemotherapy-resistant mantle cell lymphoma:
a case report
E. A. Wilson, S. Jobanputra, R. Jackson, A. N. Parker and I. G. McQuaker
Successful non-myeloablative allogeneic transplantation for treatment
of idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome
N. T. Ueno, A. Anagnostopoulos, G. Rondon, R. E. Champlin, N. Mikhailova,
O. S. Pankratova, L. S. Zoubarovskaya, E. V. Semenova, B. V. Afanasyev,
S. O'Brien, M. Andreeff and A. Y. Zaritskey
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TRANSPLANTATION
Influence of the different CD34* and CD34" cell subsets infused on clinical
outcome after non-myeloablative allogeneic peripheral blood transplantation from
human leucocyte antigen-identical sibling donors
P. Menéndez, J. A. Pérez-Simon, M. V. Mateos, M. D. Caballero, M. Gonzalez,
]. F. San-Miguel and A. Orfao
Allogeneic stem cell transplantation in the myelodysplastic syndromes: interim
results of outcome following reduced-intensity conditioning compared with
standard preparative regimens
J. E. Parker, T. Shafi, A. Pagliuca, A. Mijovic, S. Devereux, M. Potter, H. G. Prentice,
M. Garg, J. A. Yin, J. Byrne, N. H. Russell and G. J. Mufti
H2-mismatched transplantation with repetitive cell infusions and CD40 ligand
antibody infusions without myeloablation
].-F. Lambert, G. A. Colvin, S. Zhong, H. Wang, L. D'Hondt, M. Abedi,
A. E. Frimberger, F. M. Stewart and P. ]. Quesenberry
Short report Cytotoxic chemotherapy following tandem autotransplants in multiple myeloma
patients
A. B.-T. Fassas, T. Spencer, R. Desikan, M. Zangari, E. Anaissie, B. Barlogie
and G. Tricot
PLATELETS, HAEMOSTASIS AND THROMBOSIS
Factor XIII Val34Leu polymorphism, factor XIII antigen levels and activity
and the risk of deep venous thrombosis
A. van Hylckama Vlieg, N. Komanasin, R. A. S. Ariéns, S. R. Poort, P. J. Grant,
R. M. Bertina and F. R. Rosendaal
Short report Successful treatment of congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura using
the intermediate purity factor VIII concentrate BPL 8Y
W. A. Lester, M. D. Williams, S. L. Allford, M. S. Enayat and S. J. Machin
HAEMOPOIESIS AND LEUCOCYTES
Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: proposal of a diagnostic algorithm based
on perforin expression
M. Aricé, M. Allen, S. Brusa, R. Clementi, D. Pende, R. Maccario, L. Moretta
and C. Danesino
Human cytomegalovirus induces a direct inhibitory effect on antigen presentation
by monocyte-derived immature dendritic cells
U. Grigoleit, S. Riegler, H. Einsele, K. L. Sampaio, G. Jahn, H. Hebart, P. Brossart,
F. Frank and C. Sinzger
Human monocytes synthesize hyaluronidase
N. Girard, C. Maingonnat, P. Bertrand, H. Tilly, J.-P. Vannier and B. Delpech
Mobilization of dendritic cells in cancer patients treated with granulocyte
colony-stimulating factor and chemotherapy
F. J. Radcliff, D. A. Caruso, C. Koina, M. J. Riordan, A. W. Roberts, M. L. K. Tang,
C. M. Baum, S. L. Woulfe and D. M. Ashley
Laminin y2 chain as a stromal cell marker of the human bone marrow
microenvironment
U. Siler, P. Rousselle, C. A. Miiller and G. Klein
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Human Siglec-5: tissue distribution, novel isoforms and domain specificities
for sialic acid-dependent ligand interactions
N. P. Connolly, M. Jones and S. M. Watt
Short report 239 Induction of the CD163-dependent haemoglobin uptake by macrophages as a
novel anti-inflammatory action of glucocorticoids
D. J. Schaer, F. S. Boretti, G. Schoedon and A. Schaffner
RED CELLS
244
Influence of different radioprotective compounds on radiotolerance and cell cycle
distribution of human progenitor cells of granulocytopoiesis in vitro
W. Klingler, L. Kreja, W. Nothdurft and C. Selig
Fetal RHD genotyping in maternal serum during the first trimester of pregnancy
J.-M. Costa, Y. Giovangrandi, P. Ernault, L. Lohmann, V. Nataf, N. El Halali
and E. Gautier
Short reports Familial transient erythroblastopenia of childhood is associated with the
chromosome 19q13.2 region but not caused by mutations in coding sequences
of the ribosomal protein $19 (RPS19) gene
P. Gustavsson, J. Klar, H. Matsson, E. Forestier, J.-I. Henter, S. Rao, M. Seip,
G. Skeppner and N. Dahl
265 Unusual phenotypic observations associated with a rare HbH disease genotype
(- Med /-yTSaudi
«): implications for clinical management
]. Traeger-Synodinos, I. Papassotiriou, M. Karagiorga, E. Premetis, E. Kanavakis
and A. Stamoulakatou
CORRESPONDENCE
268 Position paper on imatinib mesylate in chronic myeloid leukaemia
S. G. O'Brien and S. A. J]. Rule
Nm| a Nm BCR-ABL FISH monitoring of CML: a survey of current UK practice
M. W. Drummond, L. M. Hendry, E. Maher and T. L. Holyoake
STI571-induced Stevens—Johnson syndrome
D. Vidal, L. Puig, A. Sureda and A. Alomar
Nm| a AT Thalidomide treatment of relapsed multiple myeloma patients and changes
in circulating VEGF and bFGF
V. Pitini, D. Teti, C. Arrigo, G. Aloi and M. Righi
276 Serum levels of VEGF do not correlate with the severity of multiple myeloma
C. Jakob, I. Zavrski, U. Heider, C. Langelotz, J]. Eucker, K. Possinger
and O. Sezer
Reply to Sezer et al
T. Iwasaki
P15'%*** is not mutated in adult familial myelodysplastic syndromes
E. Cameron, A. Mijovic, J. G. Herman, S. B. Baylin, A. Pradhan, G. J. Mufti
and F. V. Rassool
Red cell aplasia due to parvovirus B19 in a patient treated with
alemtuzumab
B. Crowley and B. Woodcock
280 Parvovirus B19-associated pure red cell aplasia in chronic graft-versus-host
disease
J]. W. Hsu, M. Czader, V. Anders, G. Vogelsang and R. A. Brodsky
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Congenital afibrinogenaemia in a newborn infant due to a novel mutation
in the fibrinogen Aa gene
J. J. Vlietman, J. Verhage, H. L. Vos, R. van Wijk, J. A. Remijn, W. W. van Solinge
and F. Brus
Relapse of severe aplastic anaemia after influenza immunization
C. L. Hendry, M. Sivakumaran, J. C. W. Marsh and E. C. Gordon-Smith
Acquired inhibitor of the intrinsic pathway in a non-haemophilic patient. Control
of bleeding by recombinant factor Vila
R. Lecumberri, C. Panizo, J. A. Paramo, M. P. Salazar and E. Rocha
The use of recombinant factor Vila in a Jehovah's Witness with auto-immune
thrombocytopenia and post-splenectomy haemorrhage
D. P. Waddington, F. T. McAuley, J. P. Hanley and G. P. Summerfield
ERRATA
ANNOUNCEMENT
Volume 119, Issue 2, November 2002
EDITORIAL
IMAGES IN HAEMATOLOGY
Pyothorax-associated lymphoma
M. Yasukawa, M. Hamada and K. Ohshima
Thrombus in harvested marrow from a patient with recent heparin-induced
thrombocytopenia
M. J. Bowers and F. G. C. Jones
GUIDELINE
The investigation and management of neonatal haemostasis and thrombosis
M. D. Williams, E. A. Chalmers and B. E. S. Gibson
REVIEWS
Optimization of factor VIII replacement therapy: can structural studies help
in evading antibody inhibitors?
P. C. Spiegel Jr and B. L. Stoddard
Factor VIII — novel insights into form and function
E. L. Saenko, N. M. Ananyeva, E. G. D. Tuddenham and G. Kemball-Cook
PLATELETS, HAEMOSTASIS AND THROMBOSIS
The uptake of recombinant factor VIII in the Netherlands
J. E. F. Zwart-van Rijkom, I. Plug, F. R. Rosendaal, H. G. M. Leufkens
and A. W. Broekmans on behaolf fth e Study Group of Haemophilia in the Netherlands
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342 Antibodies to factor Vila in patients with haemophilia and high-responding
inhibitors
]. Astermark, M. Ekman and E. Berntorp
348 Human platelet alloantigen polymorphism in Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia
and its impact on the severity of the disease
K. Ghosh, B. Kulkarni, S. Nair, S. Shetty and D. Mohanty
Platelet autoantibodies and lupus-associated thrombocytopenia
M. Michel, K. Lee, J.-C. Piette, P. Fromont, A. Schaeffer, P. Bierling and B. Godeau
359
Expression of stanniocalcin-1 in megakaryocytes and platelets
M. Serlachius, R. Alitalo, H. S. Olsen and L. C. Andersson
364 Lupus anticoagulant testing: improvements in performance in a UK NEQAS
proficiency testing exercise after dissemination of national guidelines
on laboratory methods
I. Jennings, M. Greaves, I. ]. Mackie, S. Kitchen, T. A. L. Woods and F. E. Preston
on behalf of the UK National External Quality Assessment Scheme for Blood Coagulation
370 Reliability of point-of-care prothrombin time testing in a community clinic:
a randomized crossover comparison with hospital laboratory testing
C. R. Shiach, B. Campbell, L. Poller, M. Keown and N. Chauhan
A family of textilinin genes, two of which encode proteins with antihaemorrhagic
properties
I. Filippovich, N. Sorokina, P. P. Masci, J. de Jersey, A. N. Whitaker, D. J. Winzor,
P. J. Gaffney and M. F. Lavin
w oe 41 C-reactive protein in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis
R. A. Bucek, M. Reiter, P. Quehenberger and E. Minar
Short reports 390 Factor VIII deficiency not induced by FVIII gene mutation in a female first cousin
of two brothers with haemophilia A
C. Mazurier, A. Parquet-Gernez, C. Gaucher, J.-M. Lavergne and J. Goudemand
393 Analysis of factor VIII inhibitors in a haemophilia A patient with an Arg’?* > Cys
mutation using phage display
W. S. Bril, E. A. M. Turenhout, P. H. P. Kaijen, E. N. van den Brink,
M. M. W. Koopman, M. Peters and J. Voorberg
397 Severe methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency revealed by a pulmonary
embolism in a young adult
C. Tonetti, M. Ruivard, V. Rieu, J. Zittoun and S. Giraudier
HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY
400 Monensin-mediated growth inhibition in human lymphoma cells through cell
cycle arrest and apoptosis
W. H. Park, J. G. Seol, E. S. Kim, W. K. Kang, Y. H. Im, C. W. Jung, B. K. Kim
and Y. Y. Lee
408 The value of bone marrow examination in the staging of Hodgkin's lymphoma:
a review of 955 cases seen in a regional cancer centre
S. J. Howell, M. Grey, J. Chang, G. R. Morgenstern, R. A. Cowan, D. P. Deakin
and J. A. Radford
412 Incidence and nature of CD20-negative relapses following rituximab therapy
in aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a retrospective review
G. A. Kennedy, S.-K. Tey, R. Cobcroft, P. Marlton, G. Cull, K. Grimmett, D. Thomson
and D. Gill
417 Major histocompatibility complex abnormalities in non-Hodgkin lymphomas
B. Drénou, G. Le Friec, M. Bernard, C. Pangault, J.-M. Grosset, T. Lamy, R. Fauchet
and L. Amiot
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Differentiation of anti-tumour cytotoxic T lymphocytes from autologous
peripheral blood lymphocytes in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas
L. Chaperot, O. Manches, J. Q. Mi, A. Moine, M.-C. Jacob, R. Gressin, J.-P. Molens,
].-]. Sotto, D. Leroux, J.-C. Bensa and J. Plumas
Hodgkin’s disease in the elderly: a population-based study
G. L. Stark, K. M. Wood, F. Jack, B. Angus, S. J. Proctor and P. R. Taylor on behalf
of the Northern Region Lymphoma Group
Isolated parenchymal lung involvement in children with stage IV Hodgkin's
disease: results of the UKCCSG HD8201 and HD9201 studies
A. Atra, E. Higgs, M. Capra, A. Elsworth, J. Imeson, M. Radford, R. Pinkerton
and M. Hewitt on behalf of the United Kingdom Children Cancer Study Group
(UKCCSG)/Hodgkin's Disease Group
Prospective molecular monitoring of BCR/ABL transcript in children with Ph*
acute lymphoblastic leukaemia unravels differences in treatment response
G. Cazzaniga, M. Lanciotti, V. Rossi, D. Di Martino, M. Arico, M. G. Valsecchi,
G. Basso, G. Masera, C. Micalizzi and A. Biondi
Identification of an ETV6—ABL2 fusion transcript in combination with an ETV6
point mutation in a T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cell line
F. Griesinger, A. Janke, M. Podleschny and S. K. Bohlander
Autologous lymphocytes as vectors to target therapeutic radiation, using
indium-114m, in patients with lymphoid cell malignancy
R. A. Cowan, B. Murby, D. Gunton, S. E. Owens, K. P. Hoyes, H. L. Sharma,
A. M. Smith, J. Chang, B. van Kessel, P. M. Nuttall and D. Crowther
Autocrine and/or paracrine growth of adult T-cell leukaemia tumour cells
by interleukin 15
T. Kukita, N. Arima, K. Matsushita, K. Arimura, H. Ohtsubo, Y. Sakaki, H. Fujiwara,
A. Ozaki, T. Matsumoto and C. Tei
Pamidronate causes apoptosis of plasma cells in vivo in patients with multiple
myeloma
S. Gordon, M. H. Helfrich, H. I. A. Sati, M. Greaves, S. H. Ralston, D. J. Culligan,
R. L. Soutar and M. J. Rogers
Short reports Limitations of Gallium-67 SPECT in histological transformation of chronic
lymphocytic leukaemia: an analysis of 13 patients with clinically suspected
Richter’s syndrome
F. Cobo, L. Rosinol, A. Martinez, F. Martin, J. Esteve, M. Gomez, E. Nadal, F. Bosch,
F. J]. Setoain, E. Campo and E. Montserrat
Molecular cytogenetics characterization of a novel translocation involving
chromosomes 17 and 19 in a Ph* adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
G. Specchia, F. Albano, L. Anelli, C. T. Storlazzi, G. Cimino, A. Liso, A. Zagaria,
V. Liso and M. Rocchi
CXCL13 (BCA-1) is produced by follicular lymphoma cells: role in the
accumulation of malignant B cells
H. Husson, A. S. Freedman, A. A. Cardoso, J. Schultze, O. Munoz, G. Strola, J. Kutok,
E. G. Carideo, R. De Beaumont, F. Caligaris-Cappio and P. Ghia
Nephrotic proteinuria associated with high-dose pamidronate in multiple myeloma
R. Desikan, Y. Veksler, S. Raza, B. Stokes, T. Sabir, Z. Li and S. Jagannath
HAEMOPOIESIS AND LEUCOCYTES
Influence of cell cycling and cell division on transendothelial migration
of CD34" cells
K. L. Yong, A. Fahey, A. Pizzey and D. C. Linch
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510 Developmental changes in the expression of transcription factors GATA-1, -2
and -3 during the onset of human medullary haematopoiesis
C. Dame, M. C. Sola, J. Fandrey, L. M. Rimsza, P. Freitag, G. Knépfle,
R. D. Christensen and J. Bungert
516 AC133° umbilical cord blood progenitors demonstrate rapid self-renewal
and low apoptosis
N. Forraz, R. Pettengell, P.-A. Deglesne and C. P. McGuckin
JIN M JI Reconstitution of human haematopoiesis in non-obese diabetic/severe combined
immunodeficient mice by clonal cells expanded from single CD34*CD38" cells
expressing Fik2/FIt3
Y. Ebihara, M. Wada, T. Ueda, M.-j. Xu, A. Manabe, R. Tanaka, M. Ito, H. Mugishima,
S. Asano, T. Nakahata and K. Tsuji
Short report 41 w v1 Dominant expression of interleukin 10 but not interferon y in CD4°"CD8" afT cells
of autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome
S. Ohga, A. Nomura, Y. Takahata, K. Ihara, H. Takada, H. Wakiguchi, Y. Kudo
and T. Hara
RED CELLS AND IRON
Genetic hyperferritinaemia and reticuloendothelial iron overload associated with a
three base pair deletion in the coding region of the ferroportin gene (SLC11A3)
M. Cazzola, L. Cremonesi, M. Papaioannou, N. Soriani, A. Kioumi, A. Charalambidou,
R. Paroni, K. Romtsou, S. Levi, M. Ferrari, P. Arosio and J. Christakis
Effective binding of free iron by a single intravenous dose of human apotransferrin
in haematological stem cell transplant patients
L. Sahlstedt, L. von Bonsdorff, F. Ebeling, T. Ruutu and J. Parkkinen
Rapid detection of the major Mediterranean $-thalassaemia mutations by
real-time polymerase chain reaction using fluorophore-labelled hybridization probes
I. Moreno, P. Bolufer, M. L. Perez, E. Barragan and M. A. Sanz
Exploring polycythaemia vera with fluorescence in situ hybridization: additional
cryptic 9p is the most frequent abnormality detected
V. Najfeld, L. Montella, A. Scalise and S. Fruchtman
Chronic leg ulceration in homozygous sickle cell disease: the role of venous
incompeience
A. Clare, M. FitzHenley, J]. Harris, I. Hambleton and G. R. Serjeant
CORRESPONDENCE
V1 Piebaldism in Diamond-Blackfan anaemia: a new phenotype?
L. D. A. Costa, J. Fixler, O. Berets, T. Leblanc, T.-N. Willig, N. Mohandas
and G. Tchernia
JI “I w Successful umbilical cord blood transplantation in a child with dyskeratosis
congenita after a fludarabine-based reduced-intensity conditioning regimen
B. Nobili, G. Rossi, P. De Stefano, M. Zecca, G. Giorgiani, S. Perrotta, A. Canazzio
and F. Locatelli
JI 1 Hyperbaric oxygen for cyclophosphamide-induced cystitis
M. J. Hughes, F. M. Davis, S. D. Mark and R. L. Spearing
5/6 Severe increase in creatinine with hypocalcaemia in thalidomide-treated myeloma
patients receiving zoledronic acid infusions
S. G. Jones, G. Dolan, K. Lengyel and B. Myers
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Treatment of refractory autoimmune (acquired) haemophilia with anti-CD20
(Rituximab)
S. Kain, T.-S. Copeland and M. F. Leahy
Is high expression of the chemokine receptor CXCR-4 of predictive value for early
relapse in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia?
P. Schneider, M. Vasse, A. Al Bayati, B. Lenormand and J.-P. Vannier
BOOK REVIEW
Volume 119, Issue 3, December-I 2002
IMAGES IN HAEMATOLOGY
Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma with bone marrow infiltration mimicking
haematological neoplasia
O. Maywald, G. Metzgeroth, C. Schoch, W. D. Ludwig, W. Neff, R. Hehlmann
and J. Hastka
Papillary endothelial hyperplasia in a bone marrow transplant recipient
with extensive chronic graft-versus-host disease
T. Yoshihara, T. Chiyonobu, A. Tatebe, A. Morimoto and S. Imashuku
REVIEWS
X-linked lymphoproliferative disease: clinical, diagnostic and molecular
perspective
H. B. Gaspar, R. Sharifi, K. C. Gilmour and A. J. Thrasher
Prevention and treatment of Epstein-Barr virus-associated lymphoproliferative
disorders in recipients of bone marrow and solid organ transplants
E. Meijer, A. W. Dekker, A. J. L. Weersink, M. Rozenberg-Arska
and L. F. Verdonck
HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY
Potassium antimony] tartrate induces caspase- and reactive oxygen
species-dependent apoptosis in lymphoid tumoral cells
V. Lecureur, A. Le Thiec, A. Le Meur, L. Amiot, B. Drenou, M. Bernard, T. Lamy,
R. Fauchet and O. Fardel
Specificity of polymerase chain reaction-based clonality analysis
of immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement for the detection of bone
marrow infiltrate in B-cell lymphoma-associated haemophagocytic syndrome
K. Kojima, K. Kaneda, M. Yasukawa, K. Tanaka, T. Inoue, T. Yamashita, H. Dansako,
S. T. Sakugawa, T. Kozuka, M. Hara and M. Tanimoto
Molecular histogenesis of plasmablastic lymphoma of the oral cavity
G. Gaidano, M. Cerri, D. Capello, E. Berra, C. Deambrogi, D. Rossi, L. M. Larocca,
E. Campo, A. Gloghini, U. Tirelli and A. Carbone
Intraclonal diversity in a Sezary syndrome with a differential response to
2-deoxycoformycin of the two lymphoma cell populations
E. Granjo, M. Lima, J. M. Lopes, N. Cunha, M. A. Teixeira, F. Santos, J. Candeias,
C. Resende, A. H. Santos, A. Balanzategui, A. Orfao and E. Matutes
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634 Treatment results of aggressive B non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in advanced age
considering comorbidity
R. Sonnen, W.-P. Schmidt, R. Kuse and N. Schmitz
640 An unbalanced translocation involving chromosome 14 is the probable cause
for loss of potentially functional rearranged immunoglobulin heavy chain
genes in the Epstein-Barr virus-positive Hodgkin’s lymphoma-derived cell line
L591
M. Vockerodt, G. Belge, D. Kube, J. Irsch, R. Siebert, H. Tesch, V. Diehl, J]. Wolf,
]. Bullerdiek and A. Staratschek-Jox
647 ChIVPP chemotherapy in children with stage IV Hodgkin's disease: results
of the UKCCSG HD 8201 and HD 9201 studies
A. Atra, E. Higgs, M. Capra, A. Elsworth, J. Imeson, M. Radford and M. Hewitt
on behalf of the UKCCSG/Hodgkin's Disease Group
652 rHuEpo administration in patients with low-risk myelodysplastic syndromes:
evaluation of erythroid precursors’ response by fluorescence in situ hybridization
on May-—Grunwald-Giemsa-stained bone marrow samples
G. M. Rigolin, M. D. Porta, R. Bigoni, F. Cavazzini, M. Ciccone, A. Bardi, A. Cuneo and
G. Castoldi
660 Anti-myeloma activity of natural killer lymphocytes
C. Frohn, M. Hoéppner, P. Schlenke, H. Kirchner, P. Koritke and J. Luhm
665 Bone marrow angiogenesis in multiple myeloma: effect of therapy
S. Kumar, R. Fonseca, A. Dispenzieri, M. Q. Lacy, J. A. Lust, T. E. Witzig, M. A. Gertz,
R. A. Kyle, P. R. Greipp and S. V. Rajkumar
672 Hepatocyte growth factor in myeloma patients treated with high-dose
chemotherapy
C. Seidel, S. Lenhoff, S. Brabrand, G. Anderson, T. Standal, J. Lanng-Nielsen,
I. Turesson, M. Berset and A. Waage for the Nordic Myeloma Study Group
Soluble .-selectin (sCD62L) in relapsed childhood acute lymphoblastic
leukaemia
R. Herold, D. Stibenz, R. Hartmann, G. Henze and C. Biihrer
685 Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)- and reverse transcription PCR-based minimal
residual disease detection in long-term follow-up of childhood acute lymphoblastic
leukaemia
P. Gameiro, I. Moreira, S. Yetgin, M. Papaioannou, M. N. Potter, H. G. Prentice,
A. V. Hoffbrand and L. Foroni
697 Comparison of a specialist haematological malignancy database against a regional
cancer registry: case ascertainment and diagnostic accuracy
K. Phekoo, H. Meller, M. Richards and S. Schey
706 Helicobacter pylori infection and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined
significance
S. V. Rajkumar, R. A. Kyle, M. F. Plevak, J. A. Murray and T. M. Therneau
709 Plasma matrix metalloproteinase and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase
in patients with agnogenic myeloid metaplasia or idiopathic primary
myelofibrosis
J. C. Wang, A. Novetsky, C. Chen and A. D. Novetsky
High occurence of DRB1 11 in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia families
I. Theodorou, L. Abel, F. Mauro, B. Duprey, C. Magnac, B. Payelle-Brogard, F. Davi
and G. Dighiero
716 Multilineage involvement in hypereosinophilic syndrome terminating
in granulocytic sarcoma and leukaemic transformation with trisomy 8
N. Fujii, K. Ikeda, N. Takahashi, K. Kojima, Y. Kobayashi, A. Ashiba, K. Takenaka,
S. Fukuda, K. Shinagawa, F. Ishimaru, K. Niiya, I. Miura, M. Tanimoto
and M. Harada