Composite diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and precursor B lymphoblastic lymphoma presenting as a double-hit lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 translocation

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1032-1034

  Nanua, Suparna ^a   Bartlett, Nancy L ^a   Hassan, Anjum ^a   Robirds, Diane ^a   Branson, Julie ^a   Frater, John L ^a   Nguyen, TuDung T ^a   Kreisel, Friederike ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE HIT LYMPHOMA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LETTER; LYMPHOBLASTOMA; MALE; ONCOGENE MYC; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, BCL-2; GENES, MYC; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PRECURSOR B-CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 80054908342     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2011-200143     Document Type: Letter

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