Most primary adrenal lymphomas are diffuse large B-cell lymphomas with non-germinal center B-cell phenotype, BCL6 gene rearrangement and poor prognosis

Modern Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1210-1217

  Mozos, Ana ^a   Ye, Hongtao ^b   Chuang, Wen Yu ^c   Chu, Jan Show ^d   Huang, Wan Ting ^e   Chen, Han Ku ^e   Hsu, Yung Hsiang ^f   Bacon, Chris M ^g   Du, Ming Qing ^h   Campo, Elias ^a   Chuang, Shih Sung ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^f BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^g NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adrenal insufficiency; Diffuse large B cell lymphoma; NK T cell lymphoma; Plasmablastic lymphoma; Primary adrenal lymphoma; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN BCL 6; VINCRISTINE;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LYMPHOMA; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 69549116603     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2009.87     Document Type: Article

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