Asian variant of intravascular large B-cell lymphoma: Still a diagnostic enigma?

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1099-1100

  Murase, Takuhei ^a  

^a Nishio Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone marrow involvement; Hemophagocytosis; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ASIA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD VESSEL; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER CELL; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 19Q; CHROMOSOME 8P; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; ERYTHROPENIA; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRISOMY 18; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 0036966710     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.1099     Document Type: Editorial

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