Mixed variant multicentric castleman disease treated with rituximab: Case report

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 622-

  Mian, Hira ^a   Leber, Brian ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; AXILLA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIAPHORESIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INGUINAL REGION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MESENTERY; MULTICENTRIC ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NAUSEA; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; GIANT LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78349270869     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3181f000e2     Document Type: Letter

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