The first reported case of nodular lymphocyte-predominant hodgkin's lymphoma of the appendix

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1860-1861

  Weine, Douglas M ^a   Gelfand, Robert M ^a   Fraser, Cory R ^a   Weg, Arnold L ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; RITUXIMAB; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR;

AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX CANCER; CASE REPORT; CECUM CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NODULAR LYMPHOCYTE PREDOMINANT HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PLEURA METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; SIGMOID; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDICITIS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RARE DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650438951     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.185     Document Type: Letter

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