Successful treatment of primary cardiac lymphoma by rituximab-CHOP and high-dose chemotherapy with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

International Journal of Hematology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 264-266

  Nonami, Atsushi ^a   Takenaka, Katsuto ^a   Kamezaki, Kenjiro ^a   Miyamoto, Toshihiro ^a   Harada, Naoki ^a   Nagafuji, Koji ^a   Teshima, Takanori ^a   Harada, Mine ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation; Primary cardiac lymphoma; Rituximab CHOP

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PREDNISOLONE; RANIMUSTINE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM; LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY HEART LYMPHOMA; REMISSION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL, DIFFUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PREDNISONE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 34247574008     PISSN: 09255710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/IJH97.06197     Document Type: Article

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