Circulating villous lymphocytes - a link between hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly and splenic lymphoma

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 171-174

  Bates, I ^a,b   Bedu Addo, G ^c   Rutherford, T R ^a   Bevan, D H ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Hyperreactive malarial splenomegaly; Lymphoma; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Splenic neoplasms; Villous lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOMA; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; SPLEEN TUMOR; SPLENOMEGALY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0031003260     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90211-X     Document Type: Article

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