Granulomatous reactions cause symptoms or clinically imitate treatment resistance in small lymphocytic lymphoma/chronic lymphocytic leukaemia more frequently than in other non-Hodgkin lymphomas

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 815-819

  Brunner, A ^a   Kantner, J ^b   Tzankov, A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BONE MARROW TUMOR; CANCER GROWTH; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NECROSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; BONE MARROW DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; LYMPHOMA, SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 23444455992     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2004.023911     Document Type: Review

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