Fatal hemophagocytic syndrome in a patient with panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma and no clinical evidence of disease

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1803-1806

  Goldschmidt, Neta ^a   Amir, Gail ^a   Krieger, Michal ^a   Gilead, Leon ^a   Paltiel, Ora ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cutaneous lymphoma; Fungal infection; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Panniculitis like T cell lymphoma; T cell receptor rearrangement

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CISPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IFOSFAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG RESPONSE; FATALITY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MYCOSIS; PANNICULITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEPSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SUPERINFECTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, NON-LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; MIDDLE AGED; PANNICULITIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0141870108     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819031000104042     Document Type: Article

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