Immunoarchitectural patterns in follicular lymphoma: Efficacy of HGAL and LMO2 in the detection of the interfollicular and diffuse components

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1266-1276

  Younes, Sheren F ^a   Beck, Andrew H ^a   Lossos, Izidore S ^b   Levy, Ronald ^a   Warnke, Roger A ^a   Natkunam, Yasodha ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

follicular lymphoma; immunoarchitecture; immunohistochemistry; low grade B cell lymphoma

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GCET2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LMO2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; METALLOPROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; METALLOPROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77956229534     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181e9343d     Document Type: Article

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