A rare case of HHV-8-positive/HIV-negative/EBV-negative primary effusion lymphoma in a renal transplant recipient

Cytopathology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-139

  Shi, Y ^a   Hou, Y ^a   Hu, Q ^a   Su, J ^a   Zeng, H ^a   Tan, Y ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CD30 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN; UREA; URIC ACID; VIMENTIN; VINCRISTINE SULFATE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ASCITES; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CHINESE; COLON ADENOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOPLASM; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOID CELL; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MELENA; MITOSIS; PRIMARY EFFUSION LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

FATAL OUTCOME; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOMA, PRIMARY EFFUSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 84858638799     PISSN: 09565507     EISSN: 13652303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2012.00960.x     Document Type: Letter

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