A rare case of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma presenting with fever and late polyarthritis

Rheumatology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 859-860

  Notas, George ^a,b   Xylouri, Irene ^a   Kritikos, Heraklis ^a   Stavroulaki, Emilia ^a   Roditakis, George ^a   Boumpas, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESNA; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIOIMMUNOBLASTIC LYMPHADENOPATHY; ANGIOIMMUNOBLASTIC T CELL LYMPHOMA; ARTHRALGIA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LETTER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOID CELL; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYALGIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVITIS; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARTHRITIS; FEVER; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MALE;

EID: 67650081108     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kep092     Document Type: Letter

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