Gastric malt lymphoma: From concept to cure

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 637-645

  Isaacson, P G ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gastric lymphoma; H. pylori; MALT lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P53;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 1; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 11; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; MUTATOR GENE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH LYMPHOMA; TRISOMY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, MUCOSA-ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE; NEOPLASM STAGING; POINT MUTATION; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032774342     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008396618983     Document Type: Article

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