Post-transplant hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma successfully treated with HyperCVAD regimen

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 330-333

  Tey, Siok Keen ^a   Marlton, Paula V ^a   Hawley, Carmel M ^a   Norris, Debra ^b   Gill, Devinder S ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b QML Pathology   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; FOLINIC ACID; MESNA; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FEVER; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; PANCYTOPENIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SEPSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; SURVIVAL TIME; T CELL LYMPHOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE MARROW; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; REMISSION INDUCTION; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 41449100077     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: 10968652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.21062     Document Type: Article

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