A new approach to the diagnosis and treatment of intravascular lymphoma

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 237-248

  Baehring, Joachim M ^a   Longtine, Janina ^b   Hochberg, Fred H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

IgH rearrangement; Intravascular lymphoma; Methotrexate

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TOXICITY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0345700620     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022588812415     Document Type: Article

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