A case of intravascular large b-cell lymphoma (ivlbcl) with no abnormal findings on chest computed tomography diagnosed by random transbronchial lung biopsy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2697-2701

  Kaku, Norihito ^a   Seki, Masafumi ^a   Doi, Seiji ^a   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^a   Imanishi, Daisuke ^b   Imamura, Yoshifumi ^a   Kurihara, Shintaro ^a   Miyazaki, Taiga ^a   Izumikawa, Koichi ^a   Kakeya, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Tashiro, Takayoshi ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (aiha); Computed tomography; Fever of unknown origin (fuo); Intravascular large b cell lymphoma (ivlbcl); Rituximab; Transbronchial lung biopsy (tblb)

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD79A ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PREDNISOLONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RITUXIMAB; TETRACYCLINE; UROBILINOGEN; VINCRISTINE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COOMBS TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; JAUNDICE; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; LUNG BIOPSY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT FEVER; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINE LEVEL; VIRUS INFECTION;

BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650374301     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3986     Document Type: Article

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