Cardiac involvement and molecular staging in a fatal case of mycosis fungoides

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 531-535

  Servitje, Octavio ^a   Limon A ^b   Blanco, A ^b   Carmona, M ^b   Serrano, T ^a   Romagosa, V ^a   Gallardo, F ^a   Garcia J ^b   Peyri J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b Institut de Recerca Oncologica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma; Lymphoma; Mycosis fungoides; Polymerase chain reaction; T cell receptor rearrangement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

FATAL OUTCOME; GENE REARRANGEMENT, GAMMA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032832374     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1999.03053.x     Document Type: Article

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