Successful treatment of lymphoma with fludarabine combined with rituximab after immune thrombocytopenia induced by fludarabine [2]

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 269-271

  Tsutsumi, Yutaka ^a   Kanamori, Hiroe ^a   Minami, Hiina ^a   Musashi, Mio ^a   Fukushima, Arata ^a   Ehira, Nobuyuki ^a   Yamato, Hiroaki ^a   Obara, Shinji ^a   Ogura, Nobutaka ^a   Tanaka, Junji ^b   Asaka, Masahiro ^b   Imamura, Masahiro ^b   Masauzi, Nobuo ^a  

^a Hakodate Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fludarabine; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL); Rituximab; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; MITOXANTRONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDARABINE;

EID: 20144362221     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-004-0976-2     Document Type: Letter

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