1997; vol. 82, no. 4
(indexed by Current Contents/Life Sciences and in Faxon Finder and Faxon XPRESS, also available on diskette with abstracts)
E DITORIAL
385 Treatment of the individual patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia.
O RIGINAL PAPERS
387 Adenoviral mediated gene transfer can be accomplished in human myeloid cell lines and is inhibited by all-trans retinoic acid-induced differentiation. Patrizia Tosi, Annalisa Pellacani,
Giuseppe Visani, Emanuela Ottaviani, Sante Tura
392 Measurement of catecholamines in mouse bone marrow by means of HPLC with electrochemical detection.
Franca Marino, Marco Cosentino, Raffaella Bombelli, Marco Ferrari, Giorgio J.M. Maestroni,
Ario Conti, Sergio Lecchini, Gianmario Frigo
395 Human leukemia k562 cells: induction to erythroid differentiation by guanine, guanosine and guanine nucleotides.
Fabio Osti, Federica Ginanni Corradini, Stefania Hanau, Maurizio Matteuzzi,
Roberto Gambari
402 Parvovirus B19 infections in patients with chronic anemia.
Erik D. Heegaard, John Myhre,
Allan Hornsleth, Maryanne Gundestrup, Hanne Boye
406 Serum erythropoietin in the diagnosis of polycythemia vera. A follow-up study.
Angel F. Remacha,
Isabel Montserrat, Amparo Santamaria, Artur Oliver, Maria Jesús Barceló, Mercedes Parellada
411 Superoxide release by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes in the presence of deferoxamine.
Metello Iacobini, Giuseppe Palumbo, Flaminia Cassiani, Francesco Massimo Perla, Beate Werner,
Adriana Menichelli, Domenico Del Principe
415 Bacteremia in patients with hematological malignancies. Analysis of risk factors, etiological agents and prognostic indicators.
Livio Pagano, Evelina Tacconelli, Mario Tumbarello, Luca Laurenti,
Elettra Ortu-La Barbera, Andrea Antinori, Savina Caponera, Roberto Cauda, Giuseppe Leone
420 Natural and acquired inhibitors of hemostasis in selected symptomatic outpatients with venous thromboembolic disease. Mario Bazzan, Giacomo Tamponi, Antonella Vaccarino, Barbara Montaruli,
Enzo Aluffi, Piercarla Schinco, Antonella Pannocchia, Alessandra Borchiellini, Claudio Rabbia, Alessandro Pileri
423 The clinical course of deep-vein thrombosis. Prospective long-term follow-up of 528 symptomatic patients.
Paolo Prandoni, Sabina Villalta, Paola Bagatella, Laura Rossi,
Antonio Marchiori, Andrea Piccioli, Enrico Bernardi, Bruno Girolami, Paolo Simioni, Antonio Girolami
429 Antiplatelet agents in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Results of a randomized multicenter trial by the Italian Cooperative Group for TTP. Enrico Bobbio-Pallavicini, Luigi Gugliotta,
Riccardo Centurioni, Camillo Porta, Nicola Vianelli, Atto Billio, Fiorenzo Tacconi, Edoardo Ascari For The Italian
Cooperative Group For TTP
436 Localized orbital lymphoma. Piero Galieni, Ennio Polito, Antonio Leccisotti, Giuseppe Marotta,
Stefano Lasi, Catia Bigazzi, Alessandro Bucalossi, Giampiero Frezza, Francesco Lauria
440 Molecular heterogeneity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) variants in Italy.
Franco Martinez Di Montemuros, Chiara Dotti, Dario Tavazzi, Gemino Fiorelli, Maria Domenica Cappellini
D ECISION MAKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
446 The utility and cost-effectiveness of D-dimer measurements in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis. Luciano Crippa, Silvana Viganò D’Angelo, Loredana Tomassini, Barbara Rizzi, Gabriella
D’Alessandro, Armando D’Angelo
S HORT REPORTS
452 The natural history of trilinear myelodysplastic syndrome and erythroleukemia.
Jan Jacques Michiels, Jannes Van Der Meulen, Pieter Brederoo
455 Ultrasound exploration in the workup of unexplained fever in the immunocompromized host: preliminary observations.
Marco Picardi, Roberto Morante, Bruno Rotoli
458 Long-lasting effect of cyclosporin-a on anemia associated with idiopathic myelofibrosis .
Daniela Pietrasanta, Marino Clavio, Emanuela Vallebella, Germana Beltrami, Marina Cavaliere, Marco Gobbi

460 Ankyrin deficiency is the most common defect in dominant and non dominant hereditary spherocytosis.
Marina Lanciotti, Paolo Perutelli, Angelo Valetto, Daniela Di Martino, Pier Giorgio Mori
463 Cardiac tamponade and cardiogenic shock as a manifestation of all-trans retinoic acid syndrome: an association not previously reported. Luis Larrea, Javier De La Rubia, Carmen Jiménez,
Guillermo Martín, Miguel A. Sanz
465 Idiopathic myelofibrosis with neutrophil myeloperoxidase deficiency: A case report.
Andrea Caenazzo, Elisa Piva, Donata Sartori, Piero Maria Stefani
468 Retrospective analysis of 34 cases of hairy cell leukemia treated with interferona and/or 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine.
Francesco Zaja, Renato Fanin, Federico Silvestri, Domenico Russo,
Laura Infanti, Michele Baccarani
471 Clinical significance of HLA-DR + , CD19 + , CD10 + immature B-cell phenotype and CD34 + cell detection in bone marrow lymphocytes from children affected with immune thrombocytopenic purpura. Vincenzo Callea, Margherita Comis, Graziella Iaria, Giuseppina Sculli,
Fortunato Morabito, Vincenzo Trapani Lombardo
M OLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE
474 Lupus anticoagulants and thrombosis: the role of phospholipids. Naomi L. Esmon,
Mikhail D. Smirnov, Charles T. Esmon
R
EVIEWS
478 New insights in biology and current therapeutic options for patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia. Angelo M. Carella, Francesco Frassoni, Junia Melo, Charles Sawyers, Connie Eaves,
Allan Eaves, Jane Apperley, Sante Tura, Rudiger Hehlmann, Josy Reiffers, Enrica Lerma, John Goldman
496 Prevention of venous thromboembolism in high risk patients. Giancarlo Agnelli, Francesco Sonaglia
T HE IRREPLACEABLE IMAGE
503 An unexpected diagnosis. Kadoudja Chemlal, Valérie Andrieu-Beautru, Marie-José Grange
504 Morphological features following G-CSF treatment. Antonio Azzarà, Giovanni Carulli
506 Ultrasound image of pleural granulocytic sarcoma. Marco Picardi, Carmine Selleri, Bruno Rotoli
L ETTERS TO THE E DITOR
507 Increased proportion of CD10-positive cells in a boy affected with common acute lymphoblastic leukemia in consolidation therapy. Vincenzo Callea, Giuseppina Sculli, Margherita Comis
507 Thyroid function is not affected by second exposure to Erwinia asparaginase for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Grazia Bossi, Daniela Larizza, Valentino Conter
508 Autoimmune hemolytic anemia with anti-DC specificity following a primary infection by varicella virus.
José Sanchis Cervera, Francisco Carbonell Uberos
509 Unusual evolution to immunoblastic lymphoma of a case of Waldenström macroglobulinemia presenting with thrombocytopenia.
Pedro Rosique, M. Juliana Majado, Agueda Bas
510 A rapid and sensitive methods for the analysis of von Willebrand factor multimeric structure.
Paolo Perutelli, Elio Boeri, Pier Giorgio Mori
510 CD5/CD19/CD23 chronic lymphocytosis. Rosa Manteiga, Luz Muñoz, Josep F. Nomdedéu
511 Leukemic meningitis in a patient with B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia .
Emilio Pastor, Enric Grau,
Esperanza Real
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