Case 31-2003: A 44-year-old man with HIV infection and a right atrial mass

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1369-1377

  Kaplan, Lawrence D ^a   Afridi, Nadeem A ^b,c   Holmvang, Godtfred ^b,c   Zukerberg, Lawrence R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MYXOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; BIOPSY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HEART ATRIUM; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HISTIOCYTIC LYMPHOMA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHOP PROTOCOL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; BIOPSY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOXORUBICIN; DYSPNEA; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDNISONE; RNA, VIRAL; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0141940203     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030013     Document Type: Article

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