Aggressive Lennert's lymphoma: Report of three cases in comparison to non-aggressive Lennert's lymphoma

Pathology International

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 626-631

  Kitamura, Atsuko ^a   Yamashita, Yoriko ^a   Sato, Yuji ^b   Hasegawa, Yuichi ^c   Kojima, Hiroshi ^c   Nagasawa, Toshiro ^c   Mori, Naoyoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytotoxic molecules; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Lennert's lymphoma; T cell lymphoma

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GRANZYME B; KI 67 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENNERT LYMPHOMA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHOMA CELL; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TIME;

AGED; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 28444491424     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2005.01880.x     Document Type: Article

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