Leptomeningeal tumor cell infiltration as first manifestation of an immunocytoma (Waldenström's macroglobulinemia);Leptomeningeale tumorzell-infiltration als erstmanifestation eines immunozytoms (M. Waldenström)

Nervenarzt

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1012-1015

  Hug, A ^a   Haas, J ^a   Storch Hagenlocher, B ^a   Wildemann, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CDR3; IgH; Immunocytoma; Leptomenigeal spread; PCR

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARAPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW DISEASE; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BONE MARROW INFILTRATION; CASE REPORT; CELL LYSATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CLONAL VARIATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; PARAPROTEINEMIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYNEUROPATHY; RARE DISEASE; SERODIAGNOSIS; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA; AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; MENINGIOMA;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 7944221369     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00115-004-1710-y     Document Type: Article

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