Primary digestive Richter's syndrome

Modern Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 452-457

  Parrens, Marie ^a,b   Sawan, Bassem ^a   Dubus, Pierre ^a   Lacombe, Francis ^a   Marit, Gérald ^a   Vergier, Béatrice ^a   Reiffers, Josy ^a   De Mascarel, Antoine ^a   Merlio, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a Hop du Haut Lévêque ^*  (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

CLL; Digestive Richter's syndrome; Gene rearrangement

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RICHTER SYNDROME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035026906     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3880333     Document Type: Article

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