Hepatitis C virus infection among patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in northern India

Hepatology International

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 688-692

  Varma, Subhash ^a   Menon, Madhav C ^a   Garg, Ashish ^a   Malhotra, Pankaj ^a   Sharma, Arpita ^a   Chawla, Yogesh K ^a   Dhiman, Radha K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C virus; Lymphomagenesis; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INDIA; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOCYTOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 79956265712     PISSN: 19360533     EISSN: 19360541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12072-010-9244-9     Document Type: Article

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