Thymic langerhans cell histiocytosis mimicking lymphoma

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 833-835

  Yaǧci, Begül ^a   Varan, Ali ^a   Üner, Aysegül ^a   Akyüz, Canan ^a   Büyükpamukçu, Münevver ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Langerhans cell histiocytosis; Thymus involvement

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE; VINBLASTINE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGERHANS CELL; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM MASS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMUS DISEASE; THYMUS LANGERHANS CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS;

CHEST PAIN; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 56749169443     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21690     Document Type: Article

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