Abstract:Lymphocytes from 27 patients with B‐type chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) were tested with immunofluorescence for expression of surface membrane immunoglobulin (SmIg) and the B cell antigen 7420. When age at time of testing, sex, clinical stage according to Binet, disease progression according to Levin and percentage of SmIg and 7420 antigen‐expressing cells were used as explanatory variables for survival in a linear logistic regression model, only the SmIg variable was significant (p < 0.025). A high propo… Show more
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