Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma of the thymus associated with Sjögren's syndrome: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 436-439

  Kinoshita, Naoe ^a,b   Ashizawa, Kazuto ^b   Abe, Kuniko ^a   Yamasaki, Naoya ^b   Nakamura, Akihiro ^b   Tagawa, Tsutomu ^b   Soda, Hiroshi ^b   Nagayasu, Takeshi ^b   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Malignant lymphoma; Mucosa associated lymphoid tissue type; Sj gren's syndrome; Thymus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MUCOSA; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THYMUS;

AGED; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL, MARGINAL ZONE; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 43049109170     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3644-z     Document Type: Article

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