Type AB thymoma accompanied by pure red cell aplasia and Good syndrome with CMV infection of tumor cells

Pathology International

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 489-493

  Shiraishi, Junichi ^a   Tsugata, Mikiko ^a   Masuda, Ryo ^a   Mori, Yuki ^a   Suzuki, Kenshi ^a   Takemura, Tamiko ^a  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; Cytomegalovirus; Hypogammaglobulinemia; Pure red cell aplasia; Thymoma; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIBODY; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOKERATIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL MATURATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GOOD SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG HILUS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; SPINDLE CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TUMOR CELL; VIRUS INCLUSION;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOSPORINE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INCLUSION BODIES, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 46749092076     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2008.02261.x     Document Type: Article

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