Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: A report of three cases in HIV-negative patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas treated with rituximab

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 519-522

  Tuccori, Marco ^a,b   Focosi, Daniele ^a   Maggi, Fabrizio ^a   Cosottini, Mirco ^a   Meini, Barbara ^b,c   Lena, Fabio ^b,c   Blandizzi, Corrado ^a,b   Del Tacca, Mario ^a,b   Petrini, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Tuscan Regional Centre of Pharmacovigilance   (Italy)

^c Livorno Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDAMUSTINE; BLEOMYCIN; CARMUSTINE; CIDOFOVIR; CISPLATIN; CLADRIBINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LENALIDOMIDE; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; MIRTAZAPINE; PREDNISONE; RISPERIDONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN BIOPSY; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLENIC MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; WHITE MATTER; MIDDLE AGED; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; SERODIAGNOSIS;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77950551323     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-009-0819-2     Document Type: Letter

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