Primary cutaneous marginal zone B-cell lymphoma: A recently described entity of low-grade malignant cutaneous B-cell lymphoma

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1307-1315

  Cerroni, Lorenzo ^a   Signoretti, Sahina ^b   Höfler, Gerald ^a   Annessi, Giorgio ^b   Pütz, Barbara ^a   Lackinger, Elisabeth ^a   Metze, Dieter ^c   Giannetti, Alberto ^b   Kerl, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cutaneous B cell lymphoma; Immunocytoma; Marginal zone B cell lymphoma; Monocytoid B cell lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOMA; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOMA; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SKIN LYMPHOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, B-LYMPHOCYTE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030831086     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199711000-00005     Document Type: Article

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