The protean spectrum of non-Hodgkin lymphomas with prominent involvement of subcutaneous fat

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 418-425

  Massone, Cesare ^a   Lozzi, Gian Piero ^a,b   Egberts, Friederike ^a,c   Fink Puches, Regina ^a   Cota, Carlo ^d   Kerl, Helmut ^a   Cerroni, Lorenzo ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD30 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MULTIPLE CANCER; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; SKIN LYMPHOMA; SPECTRUM; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE TUMOR; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, GAMMA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33744998357     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0303-6987.2006.00493.x     Document Type: Article

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