Rapidly progressive Lennert's lymphoma terminating in fulminant hepatic failure

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1409-1412

  Kojima, Hiroshi ^a   Shimizu, Seiichi ^a   Yoshida, Chikashi ^a   Katsura, Yukitaka ^a   Suzukawa, Kazumi ^a   Mukai, Harumi Y ^a   Hasgawa, Yuichi ^a   Imagawa, Shigehiko ^a   Mori, Naoyoshi ^b   Nagasawa, Toshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytotoxic T cell; Fulminant hepatic failure; Granzyme B; Lennert's lymphoma; Perforin

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CD15 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD30 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOTOXIC FACTOR; DOXORUBICIN; GRANZYME B; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PERFORIN; PREDNISOLONE; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DEATH; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EPITHELIOID CELL; FATALITY; FEVER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER NODULE; LIVER TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHOMA CELL; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY; SYMPTOM; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CELL LINEAGE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 10744230551     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042819031000083046     Document Type: Article

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