Successful treatment of multicentric Castleman's disease with combined immunochemotherapy in an AIDS patient with multiorgan failure

Leukemia

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1782-1785

  Schmidt, S M ^a   Raible, A ^a   Kortum F ^a   Mayer, F ^a   Riessen, R ^a   Adam, P ^b   Gregor, M ^a   Bissinger, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATAZANAVIR; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EMTRICITABINE; FIBRINOGEN; FLUCONAZOLE; LAMIVUDINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; PREDNISONE; RITONAVIR; RITUXIMAB; TENOFOVIR; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFRICA; ANEMIA; ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; GIANT LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51649101044     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/leu.2008.54     Document Type: Article

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