Concordance of Flow Cytometry and Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction for Measurable Residual Disease Detection in Childhood B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Real-Life Data Analysis.
The concordance between an experienced FCM laboratory and an international EuroMRD reference real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RQ-PCR) laboratory demonstrated moderate agreement but failed to detect some RQ-PCR-MRD positivite cases, potentially affecting treatment decisions.