Primary mediastinal (thymic) large B-cell lymphoma: A short review with brief discussion of mediastinal gray zone lymphoma

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 394-398

  Hutchinson, Charles Blake ^a   Wang, Endi ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPH NODE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SCLEROSIS; THYMOMA;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; SCLEROSIS; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79952963645     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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