Distribution and clinicopathologic characteristics of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in India: A study of 935 cases using WHO classification of lymphoid neoplasms (2000)

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 122-133

  Sahni, Charandeep ^a   Desai, Sangeeta ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BONE MARROW METASTASIS; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INDIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34247259535     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190601043351     Document Type: Article

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