Primary cardiac lymphoma: Clinical, histologic, immunophenotypic, and genotypic features of 5 cases of a rare disorder

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1344-1350

  Nascimento, Alessandra F ^a   Winters, Gayle L ^a   Pinkus, Geraldine S ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrium; Diffuse large cell lymphoma; Heart; Non Hodgkin lymphoma; Pericardium

Indexed keywords

COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL 6; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOTYPE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOCYTOMA; LYMPHOMA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIUM; PRIMARY CARDIAC LYMPHOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOTYPE; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KARYOTYPING; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PREDNISONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 34548292621     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3180317341     Document Type: Article

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