Analysis of immunoglobulin H gene rearrangement by polymerase chain reaction in primary central nervous system lymphoma

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1390-1396

  Kros, Johan M ^a,b   Bagdi, Eniko K ^a,b   Zheng, Pingpin ^a,b   Hop, Wim C ^a,b   Driesse, Maarten J ^a,b   Krenacs, Laszlo ^a,b   Dinjens, Winand N M ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Biotechnology Szeged   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Clonality analysis; Encephalitis; Lymphoma; Non Hodgkin; Polymerase chain reaction; Primary central nervous system lymphoma

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0036896087     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2002.97.6.1390     Document Type: Article

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