Novel Diagnostic Approaches in Bing-Neel Syndrome

Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 180-183

  Ly, K Ina ^a   Fintelmann, Florian ^b   Forghani, Reza ^b   Schaefer, Pamela W ^b   Hochberg, Ephraim P ^a   Hochberg, Fred H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

AGED; BIOPSY; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84856358734     PISSN: 21522650     EISSN: 21522669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CLML.2011.n.043     Document Type: Article

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