Are lymphocytic monoclonality and immunoglobulin heavy chain (igH) rearrangement premalignant conditions in chronic gastritis?

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 414-418

  Wündisch, Thomas ^a   Thiede, Christian ^b   Alpen, Birgit ^a   Stolte, Manfred ^c   Neubauer, Andreas ^a,d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Abteilung Hämatologie Onkologie Immunologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clonality; Gastric lymphoma; Gastritis; MALT; PCR

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; CELLS; CHAINS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMES; ONCOLOGY; TISSUE;

B CELLS; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CLONALITY; CONDITION; GASTRIC LYMPHOMA; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS; MONOCLONALITY; MUCOSA-ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE; PCR;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH MUCOSA;

EID: 0035876907     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.1110     Document Type: Article

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