Primary extranodal nasal-type natural killer/T-cell lymphoma of the brain: a case report

Human Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 769-772

  Kaluza, Vesna ^a   Rao, Dinesh S ^a   Said, Jonathan W ^a   de Vos, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic CD3; Natural killer cells; NK lymphoma; Primary CNS lymphoma

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN; GRANZYME B; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD56; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENOXAPARIN; FATAL OUTCOME; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR GAMMA; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RNA, VIRAL; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 33745462161     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2006.01.032     Document Type: Article

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