Waldenström macroglobulinemia: Clinical course and prognostic factors in 60 patients. Experience from a single hematology unit

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 722-727

  Kyrtsonis, M C ^a   Vassilakopoulos, T ^a   Angelopoulou, M ^a   Siakantaris, M ^a   Kontopidou, F ^a   Dimopoulou, M ^a   Boussiotis, V ^a   Gribabis, D ^a   Konstantopoulos, K ^a   Vaiopoulos, G ^a   Fessas, P ^a   Kittas, C ^a   Pangalis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clinical course; Lymphoma; Macroglobulinemia; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

BENCE JONES PROTEIN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CLADRIBINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUDARABINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANEMIA; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BONE MARROW; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DISEASE COURSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOLOGY; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; HYPERVISCOSITY SYNDROME; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SPLENOMEGALY; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CHLORAMBUCIL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFECTION; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; SURVIVAL RATE; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 0035676476     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-001-0385-8     Document Type: Article

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