Two cases of intravascular lymphoma: Highlighting the diagnostic difficulties in pyrexia of unknown origin

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 569-570

  Kidson Gerber, G ^a   Bosco, A ^a   MacCallum, S ^a   Dunkley, S ^a  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FERRITIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVASCULAR LYMPHOMA; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOPSY; BONE MARROW; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL, DIFFUSE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 24744454802     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2005.00905.x     Document Type: Article

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