Second primary lymphoma or recurrence: A dilemma solved by VDJ rearrangement analysis

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1539-1543

  Libra, Massimo ^a,c   De Re, Valli ^a   Gloghini, Annunziata ^a   Navolanic, Patrick Michael ^b,c   Carbone, Antonino ^a   Boiocchi, Mauro ^a  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Non Hodgkin lymphomas; Recurrence; Second primary tumor; VDJ

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER PATIENT; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER;

GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY;

EID: 3042736843     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190310001657308     Document Type: Article

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