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An animal model for meningeal leukemia
Author(s) -
Perk K.,
Pearson J. W.,
Torgersen J. A.,
Chirigos M. A.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.2910130613
Subject(s) - leukemia , pathology , medicine , central nervous system , guinea pig , childhood leukemia , immunology , lymphoblastic leukemia
An experimental model of arachnoid leukemia has been developed from a transplantable guinea‐pig leukemia. The meningeal leukemia develops after chemothera‐peutically induced primary remission. The histopathological pattern observed was similar to that seen in central nervous system involvement in childhood leukemia.