Multimodality treatment in a case of primary cardiac lymphoma

Clinical Lymphoma

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 112-114

  Lo, Shelly S ^a   Yeager, Andrew M ^a   Peel, Robert L ^b   Katz, William E ^c   Ramanathan, Ramesh K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

CHOP; Computed tomography; ESHAP; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma; Salvage chemotherapy; Stem cell transplantation; VEPA

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MEPREDNISONE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142186218     PISSN: 15269655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CLM.2003.n.020     Document Type: Article

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