Mediastinal (thymic) large B-cell lymphoma: Where do we stand?

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 229-234

  Barth, Thomas FE ^a   Leithäuser, Frank ^a   Joos, Stefan ^b   Bentz, Martin ^a   Möller, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BIOLOGY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THYMUS;

EID: 0036230745     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(02)00714-3     Document Type: Review

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