Sarcoidosis and haematological malignancies: Is there an association?

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 260-262

  Gooneratne, Lallindra ^a   Nagi, Waseem ^a   Lim, ZiYi ^a   Ho, Aloysius Y L ^a   Devereux, Stephen ^a   Pagliuca, Antonio ^a   Mufti, Ghulam J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Haematological malignancies; Immune dysregulation; Sarcoidosis; Secondary malignancies

Indexed keywords

AMSACRINE; BLEOMYCIN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLOROQUINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYDROXYUREA; IDARUBICIN; IMATINIB; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISOLONE; RETINOIC ACID; RITUXIMAB; TIOGUANINE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS; SARCOIDOSIS; SEMINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; T CELL LEUKEMIA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 40949121118     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.06986.x     Document Type: Letter

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