Lessons from a case of T-cell large granular lymphocytic leukaemia suggesting that immunomodulatory therapy is more effective than intensive treatment

Leukemia Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 225-228

  Osuji, Nnenna ^a   Matutes, Estella ^a   Wotherspoon, Andrew ^a   Catovsky, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAMPATH 1H; Methotrexate; Stem cell transplant; T cell LGL leukemia

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPENIA; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HERPES; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; SIDE EFFECT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL; MALE; METHOTREXATE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 10644272607     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2004.05.023     Document Type: Article

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