title: Clinical characteristics of the blast phase of chronic granulocytic leukemia.
abstract: The newer biologic and cytogenetic features of the blastic phase of chronic granulocytic leukemia are presented. The complexity and heterogeneity of Ph positive blastic leukemia is emphasized.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Canellos
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000782:Aneuploidy; D001752:Blast Crisis / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000235:genetics; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D014411:Neoplastic Stem Cells / Q000473:pathology; D010677:Philadelphia Chromosome; D011379:Prognosis