t(11;18)(q21;q21)-positive transformed MALT lymphoma

Histopathology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 777-780

  Tan, S Y ^a,b   Ye, H ^c   Liu, H ^c   Lim, K H ^b   Toh, H C ^d   Ng, C F J ^b   Chung, Y F A ^b   Wotherspoon, A C ^e   Du, M Q ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; OMEPRAZOLE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRODUODENOSTOMY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL, MARGINAL ZONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 42649134783     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2008.03020.x     Document Type: Letter

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