β-HCG aberrant expression in primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 717-721

  Fraternali Orcioni, Giulio ^a   Falini, Brunangelo ^b   Quaini, Federico ^d   Campo, Elias ^c   Piccioli, Milena ^a   Gamberi, Barbara ^a   Pasquinelli, Gianandrea ^a   Poggi, Simonetta ^a   Ascani, Stefano ^a   Sabattini, Elena ^a   Pileri, Stefano A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Università di Bologna ^*

Author keywords

hCG; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Malignant lymphoma; Mediastinum; Molecular biology

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIGEN; CD30 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD79A ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEVER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DNA, NEOPLASM; DOXORUBICIN; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUCOVORIN; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; METHOTREXATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDNISONE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0032983370     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199906000-00012     Document Type: Article

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