Transplacental transmission of natural-killer-cell lymphoma

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 85-91

  Catlin, Elizabeth A ^b   Roberts, Jesse D ^b   Erana, Rodrigo ^b   Preffer, Frederic I ^b   Ferry, Judith A ^b   Kelliher, Abigail S ^b   Atkins, Leonard ^b   Weinstein, Howard J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COUGHING; FEMALE; FEVER; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG EDEMA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEWBORN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; KARYOTYPING; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC;

EID: 0033536293     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199907083410204     Document Type: Article

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