Skin lesions in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 855-865

  Robak, Ewa ^a   Robak, Tadeusz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Cutaneous infections; Insect bite like reaction; Leukemia cutis; Paraneoplastic pemphigus; Richter's syndrome; Skin cancer; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALEMTUZUMAB; ALKYLATING AGENT; ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIPRURITIC AGENT; CHLORAMBUCIL; CLADRIBINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DOXORUBICIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FAMCICLOVIR; FLUDARABINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMIQUIMOD; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LINEZOLID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVE; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALACICLOVIR; VINCRISTINE;

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLAST TRANSFORMATION; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHRODERMA; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HERPES ZOSTER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INSECT BITE; LEUKEMIA CELL; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; METASTASIS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; PAPULE; PATHOGENESIS; PEMPHIGUS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PRURITUS; PURPURA; REVIEW; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN BLEEDING; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN LYMPHOMA; SKIN METASTASIS; SKIN NODULE; TUMOR FLARE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VASCULITIS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; PEMPHIGUS; PROGNOSIS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 34547425217     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190601137336     Document Type: Review

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