Low-grade malignant lymphoma, hepatitis C virus infection, and mixed cryoglobulinemia

Blood

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 3047-3053

  Pozzato, Gabriele ^a   Mazzaro, Cesare ^b   Crovatto, Marina ^b   Modolo, Maria Luisa ^b   Ceselli, Silvia ^b   Mazzi, Gustavo ^b   Sulfaro, Sandro ^b   Franzin, Francesco ^b   Tulissi, Patrizia ^b   Moretti, Michèle ^b   Santini, Gian Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; VIRUS TYPING;

EID: 0028130135     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v84.9.3047.bloodjournal8493047     Document Type: Article

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