Thymic hyperplasia following successful treatment for nodular-sclerosing Hodgkin's disease

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1615-1617

  Scheinpflug, Katrin ^a   Schmitt, Johannes ^a   Jentsch Ullrich, Kathleen ^a   Roessner, Albert ^a   Franke, Astrid ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hodgkin's disease; Mediastinal lesions; Thymectomy; Thymic hyperplasia

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REMISSION INDUCTION; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0037560234     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819031000083334     Document Type: Article

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