TY - BOOK AU - Ghada Nabil Ismail Ibrahim Shahin AU - Essam Hamed Elnoshokaty , AU - Shahira Kamal Anis , AU - Tayssir Mohamed Kamel Eyada , TI - Prevalence of chromosome 8 aneuploidy in acute myeloid leukemia patients using fluorescence in situ hybridization / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ghada Nabil Ismail Ibrahim Shahin , KW - Aneuploidy KW - Myeloid KW - Trisomy 8 N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology; Issued also as CD N2 - Background : Aneuploidy is a change in the number of chromosomes, either polysomy or monosomy . Trisomy 8 is the most common numerical abnormality in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) . Aim of the study is to detect the prevalence of chromosome 8 aneuploidy in AML patients and analyze its impact on the different clinical and hematological parameters ER -