Long-Lasting Fever of Unknown Origin Preceding the Diagnosis of Intravascular Lymphomatosis: A Further Case Stimulates Some Remarks

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 211-213

  Fozza, Claudio ^a   Bonfigli, Silvana ^a   Conti, Maurizio ^a   Dore, Fausto ^a   Longinotti, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

FUO; HL; Intravascular lymphomatosis

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR LYMPHOMATOSIS; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG INFILTRATE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROTEINURIA; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0242266986     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.10403     Document Type: Article

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