A case of clinical indolent natural killer cell lineage large granular lymphocytic leukemia in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1223-1227

  Machatschek, J N ^a   Westerman, D ^a   Prince, H M ^a   Seymour, John F ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Felty's syndrome; NK cell large granular lymphocytic leukemia; NK cell lymphocytosis; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD2 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FOLIC ACID; METHOTREXATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW METASTASIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CELL LINEAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC;

EID: 0037648767     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819031000079203     Document Type: Article

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