Diagnosis and treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mey, Ulrich ^a   Hitz, Felicitas ^b   Lohri, Andreas ^c   Pederiva, Stefanie ^d   Taverna, Christian ^e   Tzankov, Alexander ^f   Meier, Oliver ^g   Yeow, Karen ^h   Renner, Christoph ⁱ  

^a KANTONSSPITAL GRAUBÜNDEN   (Switzerland)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c Kantonsspital Liestal   (Switzerland)

^d Kantonsspital Baden   (Switzerland)

^e Kantonsspital Muensterlingen   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g Roche Pharma Schweiz AG   (Switzerland)

^h Medical and Scientific Communications   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; DLBCL; First line treatment; Follow up; Maintenance treatment; Relapsed refractory disease; Rituximab; Staging

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PREDNISONE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; ONCOGENE C MYC; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84856805625     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13511     Document Type: Review

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