Angiotropic large B-cell lymphoma with clinical features resembling subacute combined degeneration of the cord

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 275-279

  Waring, W S ^a   Wharton, S B ^a   Grant, R ^a   McIntyre, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B cell; Lymphoma; Tumour

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE MARKER; CYANOCOBALAMIN; LACTULOSE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MALE; MORTALITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; SEPSIS; URINE RETENTION;

AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; URINARY RETENTION;

EID: 0032742366     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(99)00063-3     Document Type: Article

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