Comparative study on complete remission rate and overall survival in three groups classified based on the serum interleukin-18 level in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 220-222

  Takubo, Takayuki ^a   Kumura, Takeo ^a   Nakao, Takafumi ^a   Nakamae, Hirohisa ^a   Aoyama, Yasutaka ^a   Nishiki, Saori ^a   Kinoshita, Yoshimitsu ^a   Koh, Ki Ryang ^a   Ohta, Kensuke ^a   Yamane, Takahisa ^a   Hino, Masayuki ^a   Kamitani, Tomio ^a   Tatsumi, Noriyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KUPFFER CELL; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-18; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 17744392202     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000046520     Document Type: Article

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