An unusual cause of pleural effusion

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-96

  Youngster, Ilan ^a,b   Vaisben, Eleonora ^a   Cohen, Hector ^a   Nassar, Faris ^a  

^a WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

CHOP; Human herpesvirus 8; Human immunodeficiency virus; Primary effusion lymphoma; Rituximab

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG RESPONSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HERPES; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIMARY EFFUSION LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOXORUBICIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, AIDS-RELATED; MALE; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

HERPES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 31144449799     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afj009     Document Type: Article

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