Classification of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by immunohistochemistry demonstrates that elderly patients are more common in the non-GC subgroup and younger patients in the GC subgroup

Haematologica

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Thunberg, Ulf ^a   Enblad, Gunilla ^a   Berglund, Mattias ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DLBCL; Germinal; Immunohistochemistry; Non germinal

Indexed keywords

COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 4; PROTEIN BCL 6;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; MALE;

EID: 84856414699     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: 15928721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2011.057240     Document Type: Letter

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